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What to do with the SS Richard Montgomery, the ticking time bomb sitting in the Thames River estuary. With, a Florida connection for you Noles of HROT

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The Liberty class ship SS Richard Montgomery was built in Jacksonville, Florida, and launched in 1943. In 1944 while sitting at anchor in the Thames estuary while waiting on a convoy to form up before delivering her cargo of HE shells and bombs, the Montgomery moved during a tidal flow and became stuck on a sandbar. Part of the cargo was removed, but vast amounts of explosives remained after the initial salvage operation ended when the ship broke up. After the war the British got cheap and refused to pay hazard pay to crews in order to recover they cargo, so, there it sits 75 years later. A hazard to navigation, and with the potential to explode.
https://www.submerged.co.uk/montgomery/
 
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The Liberty class ship SS Richard Montgomery was built in Jacksonville, Florida, and launched in 1943. In 1944 while sitting at anchor in the Thames estuary while waiting on a convoy to form up before delivering her cargo of HE shells and bombs, the Montgomery moved during a tidal flow and became stuck on a sandbar. Part of the cargo was removed, but vast amounts of explosives remained after the initial salvage operation ended when the ship broke up. After the war the British got cheap and refused to pay hazard pay to crews in order to recover they cargo, so, there it sits 75 years later. A hazard to navigation, and with the potential to explode.
https://www.submerged.co.uk/montgomery/

Why don't they just go ahead and blow it up?
 
Why don't they just go ahead and blow it up?
That seems like a question a former Coast Guardsman wouldn’t have to ask. Or, something you wouldn’t have to ask if you’d read the article. It’s a giant bomb sitting 1 mile off of the coast from a small town, and in a major shopping channel. An explosion could throw debris over a mile up into the air, and create a tsunami like wave that would travel up the Thames.
 
That seems like a question a former Coast Guardsman wouldn’t have to ask. Or, something you wouldn’t have to ask if you’d read the article. It’s a giant bomb sitting 1 mile off of the coast from a small town, and in a major shopping channel. An explosion could throw debris over a mile up into the air, and create a tsunami like wave that would travel up the Thames.
 
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