SS Richard Montgomery

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Apologies if this is common knowledge to Londoners and/or the sailors on here, but I'd never heard of it and found the story intriguing.

A while back, my uncle Tony (one of those people who never fails to come up with a randomly interesting story)told me about the wreck of a wartime ship in the Thames that still contains a thousand or so tonnes of explosives, which, if detonated would cause some kind of tidal wave which could flood parts of London. I'm guessing this is it:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery

Cheers,

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FourWheelDrift said:

NDT said:

Although in reality, if the stuff's been there 65 years then it's unlikely to spontaneously go pop now is it?

Not unless a recently pirated & hijacked container ship that's gone missing in the English Channel were to run into it.

Which, according to Yahoo news apparently now contains a top secret military cargo.

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ronangel said:

I noticed from my site alerts that there was an interest among your group about the wreck of the ss richard montgomery
For those readers that want more up to date info about the wreck go to the site and follow the many links to factual information from the main page http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com or just look directly at the links below.

factual information clip from bbc tv uk program coast-8 (4mins- 5Mb .wmv) royal navy explosives expert
http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com/download/movies...
(Copy above link into your browser)
underwater_explosion.wmv (a very small taste of what will happen when SS Richard Montgomery explodes!)
http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com/download/movies...
(Copy above link into your browser)
If you want to have a trip around the wreck or the sea forts
http://www.bobleroi.co.uk/BoatTrips/BoatTrips.html
would be the site to contact.

Edited by ronangel on Friday 14th August 08:57

I had a look at your website - very interesting, thanks for posting it.

Cheers.