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Originally Posted by bigboywooly
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It may well damage other ships
I read something a while back of an ammo ship bombed in port and taking out half the buildings and a couple of other ships
Will try to find that again - somewhere in the Med IIRC
A little OT but there is a WW2 ship sunk 1 mile off Sheerness with around 3000tonnes of ammo still aboard
Now if that goes up you can kiss goodbye to Sheerness and Holland in the resulting tidal wave  |
I think the ship you are referring to is Clan Fraser.
She was bombed by aircraft in Piraeus on 6th April 1941 while discharging high explosive.
Only seven crew were killed but enormous damage was done to the port and other ships including Clan cumming, one of only two ships to survive the explosion.
(p 80 - Clan Line In Photographs - Avid Publications by Tony Blackler).
I understand they are thinking of doing something eventually with the ship at Sheerness. |
That may be the ship
Thanx
The account I read was from an AA gunner on another ship in the same port that sank also
My understanding of the Sheerness ship - Richard something or other - Damn my memory - is that the fuses are now way unsafe to try to move
Not sure how they will get round that but its still there after 62 years
Ah found it - SS Richard Montgomery |
If I remember correctly, the aircraft which bombed the Clan Fraser (a Ju88) was piloted by Hajo Hermann, the man later to devise the 'Wild Boar' night-fighter tactics over Europe. An account of the raid from his perspective can be found in his autobiography 'Eagles Wings'.