HMS Barham Explodes & Sinks: World War II (1941) | British Pathé Torpedoed by German U Boat. In 4 minutes and 45 seconds a 35,000 ton battleship was lost and with her 868 officers and men. Source :- British pathe HMS Barham survivor from Leicester tells of miraculous escape from doomed battleship. Richard Laland is one of only two survivors from the doomed battleship HMS Barham still alive today. The 92-year-old, from Leicester, miraculously escaped death when the ship was sunk by a German U-boa