Via the Railway Eye (and a local Kent paper I read earlier) comes a reminder that not everything off the Isle of Sheppey is a prime site for land reclamation:
The proposed airport is to be created on an artificial island in the Thames Estuary off the Isle of Sheppey, near the site of wrecked liberty ship SS Richard Montgomery.
The ship sank in 1944 carrying 1,500 tons of explosives.
That’s a lot, which is why no one’s dared try to move it in 64 years. I’ve updated the map with the official exclusion zone around the wreck.
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And the link to Railway Eye can be found here…
Under the first word of my post? I know our cunning grey on grey colour scheme for links leaves a bit to be desired and we’d better do something about it. I did forget to dig up the Kent local paper link though.
In another blow to Boris International, the Daily Mash has gone straight from churnalism to satire without passing Go…
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1270&Itemid=59
Ah – I see.
Or rather I don’t but with judicious jiggling of the mouse I can.
Many thanks TFC
No problem. We’ll decide on a colour for the links when Boris decides whether he’s Red, Blue or just raises the white flag.
For those readers that want more up to date info about the wreck go to the site and follow the many links to factual information from the main page http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com or just look directly at the links below.
factual information clip from bbc tv uk program coast-8 (4mins- 5Mb .wmv) royal navy explosives expert
http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com/download/movies/montbbccoast8.wmv
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underwater_explosion.wmv (a very small taste of what will happen when ss richard montgomery explodes!)
http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com/download/movies/underwater_explosion.wmv
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