SS Richard Montgomery

[DJCliffy]

Anyone heard of this ship? It sunk in WW2, It lies in the Thames Estuary and the ship is chock-a-block full of explosives. The full list is -



286 2000lb bombs
4439 1000lb bombs of various types
1925 500lb bombs
2815 fragmentation bombs and bomb clusters
Smoke bombs including white phosphorus smoke bombs
Signals
Boosters

It's literally a ticking time bomb as there is no way of salvaging the wreck. Would be quite fucked up if it went up!! :crazy:

SS Richard Montgomery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery)

[DaftFader]

HMM HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT GOING TO THAT PARTY ON THE THEAMS NOW :LAUGH_AT:

[p0ly]

It's literally a ticking time bomb as there is no way of salvaging the wreck. Would be quite fucked up if it went up!! :crazy:

SS Richard Montgomery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery)


TICK TOCK TICK TOCK TICK TOCK

[Holeydel]

It's literally a ticking time bomb as there is no way of salvaging the wreck. Would be quite fucked up if it went up!! :crazy:

SS Richard Montgomery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery)

Depends really on which area of the Thames it lays on - some areas of London could do with being levelled!

[Minghead]

i like this:

According to a BBC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Broadcasting_Corporation) news report,[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery#cite_note-2) in 1970 it was determined that if the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery exploded, it would throw a 1000-foot (300 m) wide column of water and debris nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m) in the air and generate a wave 16 feet (5 m) high. Almost every window in Sheerness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheerness) (pop. c20,000) would be broken and buildings would be damaged by the blast

now that would be mega to watch! ( from a safe distance of course!)