12-03-2011, 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Kongo-Otto
Ok if this was a Ammo Transport ship which i assume then the Bombs are not equipped with fuzes, so there is a little risk for an explosion, but there is an imminent risk for the enviroment if those stuff contaminates the water.
May i ask how the ship was sunk?
Accident, air raid or U-Boot?
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Accident,
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Having crossed the Atlantic Ocean with the probability of attack by u-boat, she arrived in the Thames estuary on route to her final destination of Cherbourg. During the night of 20th August 1944 she swung around at her moorings and run aground on the Sheerness middle sand. Her plates quickly began to crack and buckle and her remaining crew abandoned ship.
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