SS Richard Montgomery: Doomsday Wreck in Thames

0:00On March 25th, a World War II shipwreck in the TEMS estuary is packed with 1,400 tons of unexploded bombs, making it a prime, target for a drone attack. The SS-Richard Montgomery sank off-sheerness in Ken back in 1944 while carrying munitions for the Normandy invasion. Experts now call it a sitting duck, especially with rising tensions. The American Liberty ship dragged its anchor during a storm on August 20th, 1944, and broke apart on a sandbank just 200, 50 yards from a key shipping channel. salvaged teams removed some cargo, but the rest stayed behind as a 7,200 ton vessel flooded and sank. Today, it holds everything from phosphorus bombs to 1,000 pounders. If struck by drones knocking over its masts, the blast could hurl debris 1.8 miles high, leveling the nearby town of Sheerness with its 13,000 residents. A tsunami up to 40 feet tall might follow, flooding North Kent, South Essex, and even

1:01reaching toward London, wiping out a major gas terminal along. The way, recent Iranian missile strikes on a British base in the Chagos Islands show they have weapons that could reach 4,000 kilometers, raising. Savitage fears from experts like emergency planners and military veterans, they worry about proxies or basic drones targeting the fixed wreck. These monitor the site around the clock with no fly zones for aircraft and drones, insisting the structure remains stable for now. But as the hull keeps deteriorating, the old Doomsday risk feels more urgent than ever.