Bob Eager scribbled...


On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:40:20 +0100, Jabba wrote:

Bob Eager scribbled...


Other bits of Liberty are about ,Greece got the last one available
from the US reserve a few years back to act as a non working museum
in honour of how their merchant fleet expanded using them.
And of course there is still the Richard Montgomery lying in the
Thames Estuary full of corroding munitions to which the
authorities have applied the asbestos solution, if we don't disturb
it, it will probably be ok.


We've still got the SS Richard Montgomery parked off Sheerness...

Um....I think he said that...


Opps - didn't scroll all the way down.
Teach me to get up early and play on here half asleep.

Depending on who you listen to, we would be affected by the blast...!


I wasn't aware there had been an attempt at removing explosives from
another ship in the channel. From Wiki

"...One of the reasons that the explosives have not been removed was the
unfortunate outcome of a similar operation in July 1967 to neutralize
the contents of Kielce, a ship of Polish origin, sunk in 1946 off
Folkestone in the English Channel. During preliminary work 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 (6 m) crater in the seabed and bringing "panic and
chaos" to Folkestone, although no injuries..."