WW2 Sunken US Navy ship

[LustyLew]

Hi guys,

I was talking to my dad yesterday about a US WW2 ship that sunk just outside the Thames estuary. The one with the unstable explosives on that everyone's petrified to touch.

Can anyone remember it's name, or know any websites on it?

Thanks!
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[LustyLew]

USS Richard Montgomery!

Had to go hunting through lists of sunken ships to find it.

Hmmm... 3.5 kilo ton's of explosives just off the Isle of Sheppy... Anyone got a match?
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[Shaun]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Richard_Montgomery

Quite an interesting read, not heard about that before.

[tatters]

I think they were going to blow it up at one point but its though that the blast would take out every window on the Isle of Sheppy , used to sail around it alot when my dad had his boat you could only really see the three masts sticking out the sea.
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[tribal_tiger]

If they repeat this seaon of Coast on BBC2 it was on there.

Have a look!

[jay_666]

https://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga-environmental/mcga-dops_row_receiver_of_wreck/dops_receiver-of-wreck_richard-montgomery.htm
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[MattHirst]

I was about to say i'm sure i saw this on Tv either yesterday or the day before.

Wasn't there something like 3000 lbs of unexploded bombs, and then some cluster bombs with fuses already in....what if some diver drops his flare

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[befdelta7]

yer i watched 'coast' last night and that was on it -- smack bang in the middle of the estuary!! it got caught on a sand bank, got stranded then when the tide went out it broke in 2 due to the weight of the bombs on board cant really remember a lot more about it as i was half asleep.


anyone else seen 'coast' on BBC1 ??
might have to go and buy the boxset
im not a boring person..... honest
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[gavin]

apparently, if it goes bang, it will take the whole of sheppey with it, which can only be a good thing!

www.sheppeyscum.com
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[colin1]

i dont know what effect sea water has on explosives, but maybe some terrorists might want to put a fresh bomb in there to ignite the old ones.

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[bazza]

[tribal_tiger]

[st3v3]

Great. all we need is terrorists blowing up this ship.

i can't beleive i only just found out, is it as bad as living on potentially dormant/inactive volcano?

i believe there is a couple of these throughout the uk..
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[Mister James]

The terrorists are hardly likely to blow it up, as they'd be doing us a favour by clearing the island!
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