An eight-week project to cut down the three masts of the American cargo ship SS Richard Montgomery, which sank off Sheppey more than 80 years ago, has been in the pipeline for almost five years.

A World War Two wreck in the Thames estuary is a ticking time bomb, an expert has warned, as it has not been dealt with 80 ...

The SS Richard Montgomery was an American Liberty Ship built during WWII to transport amunitions from America to Europe. The ship ran aground on the 20th August 1944 with nearly 1,500 tonnes of ...