Fears ‘WW2 doomsday wreck’ could unleash deadly gas and tidal wave in London as time bomb STILL ticking in Thames A "DOOMSDAY wreck" whose bomb-filled hold threatens to unleash a tsunami in the Thames may carry another deadly cargo.
The SS Richard Montgomery sank in the Thames Estuary near Sheerness, Kent, in August 1944, taking some 1,400 tons of American bombs to the bottom.
Fearing that a desperate Hitler might turn to chemical weapons, the Allies dispatched mustard gas to Italy so they could quickly respond.
D-Day had taken place in June, and Hitler had given his forces permission to withdraw from Normandy mere days before the SS Richard Montgomery sank.
He cited the example of another Liberty Ship, the SS John Harvey, which was dispatched to the Mediterranean theatre with a secret shipment of the killer gas.
