American liberty ship SS Richard Montgomery sank with 1400 tonnes of explosives back in 1944 just over a mile offshore of Sheerness. Proposals to remove the masts were originally announced in 2021 ...

An eight-week project to cut down the three masts of the American cargo ship SS Richard Montgomery, which sank off Sheppey more than 80 years ago, has been in the pipeline for almost five years.

The SS Richard Montgomery was an American Liberty Ship built during WWII to transport amunitions from America to Europe. The ship ran aground on the 20th August 1944 with nearly 1,500 tonnes of ...