LISTEN: Ellis Stephenson has been telling us what it's like to live by a ship that sunk 75 years ago carrying explosives off the Kent coast - 20/08/19
Aug 20, 2019, 05:00 AM
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It's been 75 year since the SS Richard Montgomery sank off the Kent coast on its way to allied-occupied France.
The American Liberty Ship went down in the Thames Estuary off Sheerness in 1944 loaded with explosives.
It still has 1,400 tonnes of bombs on board - which are stable - and is surveyed each year to check how dangerous the cargo is.