Close up of the masts from the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery lying miles north of Sheerness in the Thames Estuary.

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The SS Richard Montgomery was an American Liberty ship built during World War II, one of the 2,710 used to carry cargo during the war. The ship was wrecked off the Nore sandbank in the Thames Estuary, near Sheerness, England in 1944 with around 1,400 tonnes of explosives on board, and continues to be a hazard to the area.

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