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Surface Interval: Discuss Sheerness On Sea SS Montgomery in the General Diving Forums forums: Being a big Fan of Mark Williams I was intrigued by his article on the SS montgomery a Ship sunk ...

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Old 28-08-06, 12:03 PM
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Sheerness On Sea SS Montgomery
Being a big Fan of Mark Williams I was intrigued by his article on the SS montgomery a Ship sunk during the WW2 During his excellent programme BIG Bangs. Which was and still is carry some very big Bombs. They did try and salvage the HE however only managed to get roughly 1/2 of it. Originally it contained

13,064 general purpose 250 lb (113 kg) bombs
9,022 cases of fragmenting bombs
7,739 semi-armour-piercing bombs
1,522 cases of fuses
1,429 cases of phosphorus bombs
1,427 cases of 100 lb (45 kg) demolition bombs
817 cases of small arms ammunition


Of which 3,173 tons of munitions containing 1,400 tons of TNT remain on the wreck.

Mark did state that if it went up (Unlikely) the wave created would hit Holland:-) Sheerness might be a tad Scorched as well.

One of the reasons why the explosives have not been removed was the unfortunate outcome of a similar operation in July 1967 to neutralize the contents of the Kielce, a ship of Polish origin, sunk in 1946 off Folkestone in the English Channel. During preliminary work the Kielce, containing a comparable amount of ordnance, exploded with force equivalent to an earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale, digging a 20-foot-deep crater in the seabed and bringing "panic and chaos" to Folkestone, although no injuries.

Picures of the bits you can see
ssrichardmontgomery - SS Richard Montgomery, May 2005


Wreck Survey.
http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/2000_su...%20on%20sea%22

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Please note being a lazy arse I have stolen this info from the attached sites.
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We used to look out over the wreck from our caravan site on the island. Its a shame it cant be dived but thewater round there is like soup anyway so it dosent matter that much.

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Lucky me.

My parents live in Shoeburyness.......that thing is just outside where they live!!!

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Best thing they could do with that it set it off and the hole that is the Isle of Sheppey and the village idiots that live there.
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I knew my ears were burning for a reason today

it is a shame that this wreck can't be dived, especially as it's so close to my house, although if it ever did blow up, then my house may not be where it is now!!!!!!, they keep coming up with different ideas as to how to solve the problem of the wreck, and trying to guess just how much damage would be done to the Island
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it is a shame that this wreck can't be dived, especially as it's so close to my house, although if it ever did blow up, then my house may not be where it is now!!!!!!, they keep coming up with different ideas as to how to solve the problem of the wreck, and trying to guess just how much damage would be done to the Island
I've sailed past the site a few times when I was much younger. One time was just as the sun was rising. Very eerie with the various warning horns going.
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I've sailed past the site a few times when I was much younger. One time was just as the sun was rising. Very eerie with the various warning horns going.
Me 2.......... but it's also a nice dive in 3 mts of viz
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