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/
https://www.submerged.co.uk/montgomery/
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