Fresh warning over 'Doomsday wreck' at the bottom of the Thames: Bomb-laden SS Richard Montgomery may also be packed full of mustard gas, expert warns A 'Doomsday wreck' whose bomb-filled hold threatens to unleash a tsunami in the Thames may carry another deadly cargo it's feared – mustard gas.
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.
A 'Doomsday wreck' whose bomb-filled hold threatens to unleash a tsunami in the Thames may carry another deadly cargo it's feared – mustard gas.
The SS Richard Montgomery sank off Medway in Kent and has lain on the seabed for nearly 80 years.
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.
