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SS Richard Montgomery is a wrecked American Liberty ship that was built during World War II. She was named after Richard Montgomery, an Irish officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War. [4] She was wrecked on the Nore sandbank in the Thames Estuary, near Sheerness, Kent, England, in August 1944, while carrying a cargo of munitions.
The official death toll is 5,348, but it is estimated that up to 9,343 were killed, making it possibly the worst single-ship loss of life in history and the worst maritime ship disaster of WWII. Most of those killed were German civilians, military personnel, and Nazi officials being evacuated from East Prussia. It is estimated that between 650 ...
Brad Lendon, CNN. November 16, 2024 at 11:00 PM. The wreck of a US warship sunk in a World War II battle dubbed one of the bravest ever stands by a US Navy vessel has been found in the depths of ...
List of missing ships. SS Waratah and its 211 crew and passengers were last heard from on 27 July 1909. Its wreck has yet to be found. This is a list of missing ships and wrecks. If it is known that the ship in question sank, then its wreck has not yet been located. Ships are usually declared lost and assumed wrecked after a period of ...
The ship was damaged by gunfire during combat by Japanese forces near Bali in Feb. 1942 and a “freak accident” left it stranded in a dry dock in Java. The crew decided to scuttle the ship as ...
A team of investigators says they have found the wreck of the USS Stewart, a U.S. Navy destroyer that served under both American and Japanese flags during World War II before it was deliberately ...
The ship was knocked out of the war and although repaired, she did not see active service after World War II. She was scrapped in 1973. USS Wasp (CV-18), on 19 March 1945, was hit with a 500 lb armor-piercing bomb which penetrated both the flight and hangar decks, then exploded in the crew's galley. Many of her shipmates were having breakfast ...
A. World War II shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea (27 P) World War II shipwrecks in the Arctic Ocean (72 P) World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean (1 C, 817 P)