Why Nobody Removes this WW2 Doomsday Wreck - 40,000 Lives Near a Sunken Time Bomb

SS Richard Montgomery, Thames Estuary wreck, and live WW2 explosives: three rusting masts still rise from the water today, with 1,400 tons of wartime munitions beneath them. 🔔 Subscribe to ‪@FleetGraveyards‬ for hidden history, dangerous wrecks, forgotten disasters, and unresolved wartime mysteries. The SS Richard Montgomery was a Liberty Ship loaded with wartime munitions meant for the Allied advance in Europe. But after grounding on a sandbank in the Thames Estuary, the ship cracked, flooded, and became too unstable to fully unload. Today, the wreck remains one of the most dangerous unresolved World War Two shipwrecks in Britain. In this documentary, we explore why the SS Richard Montgomery is still there, why nobody will touch it, what could happen if the explosives detonated, and why trying to remove the cargo could make the disaster even worse. ⏳ CHAPTERS: 00:00 — The Doomsday Wreck 01:32 — The Liberty Ship 02:40 — Grounded in the Thames 04:15 — The Failed Salvage 05:35 — Still Watched Today 06:31 — Why Nobody Removes It 07:52 — The Corroding Hull 08:35 — If It Explodes 09:50 — The Disaster That Never Ended Sources used for this video include: GOV.UK — SS Richard Montgomery Background Information Maritime and Coastguard Agency — SS Richard Montgomery Annual Survey Reports GOV.UK — SS Richard Montgomery Information and Survey Reports Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 — prohibited area information Historical reference material on Liberty Ships and World War Two shipping #SSRichardMontgomery #ThamesEstuary #WWIIShipwreck #DangerousWreck #NavalHistory