SS Richard Montgomery
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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 British Army during the French a
Visible masts of the wreck of Richard Montgomery
Warning buoy marking the wreck of SS Richard Montgomery (masts visible to left)
Nore
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The Nore is a long bank of sand and silt running along the south-centre of the final narrowing of the Thames Estuary, England. Its south-west is the very narrow Nore Sand. Just short of the Nore's eas
SS Richard Montgomery
…Army during the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War and then in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. She was wrecked on the Nore sandbank in the Thames Estuary, near Sheerness, Kent, England, in August 1944, while carrying a cargo of munitions. About 1,400 tonnes (1,500 short…
Lightship Nore
Admiralty Chart No 1975 Kentish Knock and the Naze to The Nore, published 1934
Sheerness as Seen from the Nore by J.M.W. Turner, 1808