SS Richard Montgomery

The Liberty ship ss richard montgomery is a time-bomb waiting for a terrorist to give Britain its first real tsunami and, maybe, worse.

Fact: The US explosives carrier Richard Montgomery sank in the Thames Estuary in August 1944. It was loaded with 1500 tons of explosive munitions. The Admiralty decided to leave the wreck and its dangerous cargo undisturbed. The wreck lies just a few hundred yards offshore between an oil refinery and the several towns. Southend on Sea is just a couple of miles away on the other side of the Thames estuary. Rumours about the ship and its cargo have circulated in these towns ever since. Denials have been issued by ministers in the House of Commons in response to MPs questions about the presence on board of biological, chemical and gas warheads. Nevertheless, rumours persist that the real reason the wreck was not made safe was because of the existence of dirty weapons on board.

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• Britain

[Rhyster66]

Sounds abit weird, but i would love it to blow up, i would just love to see the explosion and the water splash everywhere.

[paulhunter123]

i wanna do a few laps around it on my lilo.

[calumk3231]

I live on the isle of sheppey and i dont get why everybody makes jokes about it apart from the chavs in sheerness...

[BrachypelmaSmithi100]

I live in London and have a caravan on the Isle of retar...i mean Sheppey. Can see the SS RM from there!

[Marlever357]

Should get the Polish government to arrange its removal as there are more Poles at risk on the Island than Islanders.

[knutgordon]

The estimated effects of the explosives remaining aboard her 'going up' seems grossly exaggerated, there is much worse thing hiding under the sea surface. There is two big craters in the bottom of the Irtish sea that has most of the enormous amount of surplus ammo from WW2 together with stock piles of chemical weapons and god knows what else was dumped. Thats something you really do not want to go kaboom and its only really remembered about when somebody wanted to put a gas pipeline through it.

[BestCodBounce]

@Rhyster66 fuckin idiot 

[vjpearce]

@Rhyster66 I don't fancy that happening. I live near it.

[ukipwarrior]

u can say goodbye to british financial economy if she blows

[Dendiol]

I love Neil Oliver's dulcet tones

[scorp1035]

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