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The SS Richard Montgomery

Thames Estuary, off Sheerness, Kent

A wreck still packed with explosives, its masts poking out of the water.

In August 1944 the American cargo ship Richard Montgomery ran aground on a sandbank off Sheerness, loaded with bombs. She broke in two before she could be fully unloaded.

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When
August 1944
Where
51.4650, 0.7870
Group
Shipwrecks

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Her masts can be seen from the seafront at Sheerness and Minster. Do not approach by boat.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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