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Sources
- SS Richard Montgomery: background information
- Report on the Wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery
- SS Richard Montgomery Survey Report 2003
- SS Richard Montgomery Survey and Hull Thickness Report 2013
- Final report on research carried out during FY 14/15 in support of managing the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery
- Phase 2 support to managing the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery — Summary Report
- SS Richard Montgomery: Survey Report 2021
- SS Richard Montgomery: Survey Report 2022
- SS Richard Montgomery: Survey report 2025
- A Survey of the Wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery — A Summary Report
- Report on the Wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery (1998 survey)
- Report on the Wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery (2000 survey)
- SS Richard Montgomery Survey Report 2017
- SS Richard Montgomery: Survey Report 2023
- SS Richard Montgomery: Survey Report 2024
- Vessel Status Card: Richard Montgomery
- s.s. Richard Montgomery — written answer
- ss. Richard Montgomery — oral answer
- s.s. Montgomery Wreck (Explosives) — oral answer
- s.s. Richard Montgomery (Protection) — oral answer
- Wreck, Thames Estuary — written answer
- Ship Wreck (Thames Estuary) — oral answer
- Protection of Wrecks Bill — second reading
- SS Richard Montgomery — written answer
- Shell Haven — written answer
- Shell Haven — written answers
- Minded view letter on proposed London Gateway port
- London Gateway inquiry final core documents list
- London Gateway (Shell Haven) Public Inquiry proceedings — Day 24 morning
- London Gateway Public Inquiry witness index
- LONDON GATEWAY PORT LIMITED company overview
- Papers of the late Councillor David Cotgrove relating to wreck of Richard Montgomery
- The SS Richard Montgomery: Information and survey reports — archived 8 June 2020 edition
- The SS Richard Montgomery: Information and survey reports — archived 16 August 2022 edition
- The SS Richard Montgomery: Information and survey reports — archived 15 June 2023 edition
- S&MOCB/3372 — SS Richard Montgomery Mast Removal contract award notice
- S&MOCB/3372 — SS Richard Montgomery Mast Removal prior information notice
- S&MOCB/3372 — SS Richard Montgomery Mast Removal contract notice
- S&MOCB/3372 contract-notice corrigendum — response deadline addition
- S&MOCB/3372 contract-notice corrigendum — deadline replacement
- SSRM Redacted contract — S&MOCB/3372
- SS Richard Montgomery Mast Reduction Project — UK7 OCDS record package
- Safe removal of masts from historic WWII shipwreck carrying wartime explosives begins
- SS Richard Montgomery: written question HL7860
- SS Richard Montgomery: written question HL223
- SS Richard Montgomery: written question 90935
- The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (SS Richard Montgomery) Regulations 2022
- The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (SS Richard Montgomery) Regulations 2025
- The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (SS Richard Montgomery) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
- The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (SS Richard Montgomery) (Restricted Area EG R162) Regulations 2026
- NtoM 30-2025: Approaches to Sheerness, SS Richard Montgomery Wreck — Hydrographic Survey Work
- NtoM 18-2026: Approaches to Sheerness, SS Richard Montgomery Wreck — Exclusion Zone Extension
- NtoM 19-2026 updated 27 March: Approaches to Sheerness, SS Richard Montgomery Wreck — Hydrographic Survey Work
- NtoM 28-2026 updated 8 June: Approaches to Sheerness, SS Richard Montgomery Wreck — Hydrographic Survey Work
- NtoM 37-2026: SS Richard Montgomery
- Decision letter: SS Richard Montgomery mast reduction and removal
- Marine licence: SS Richard Montgomery mast reduction and removal
- Historic England consultation response: SS Richard Montgomery mast reduction and removal
- Decision letter: SS Richard Montgomery mast reduction and removal
- Marine licence: SS Richard Montgomery mast reduction and removal
- Redacted application: SS Richard Montgomery mast reduction and removal
- Notification of exempt activity: Wreck of SS Richard Montgomery
- AIC M 080/2022: Restriction of Flying Regulations — SS Richard Montgomery, Sheerness, Kent
- NtoM 36-2023: Approaches to Sheerness, SS Richard Montgomery Wreck — Hydrographic Survey Work
- NtoM 36-2023 updated 29 November: Approaches to Sheerness, SS Richard Montgomery Wreck — Hydrographic Survey Work
- NtoM 40-2024: Approaches to Sheerness, SS Richard Montgomery Wreck — Survey Operations
- Full UK Pre-flight Information Bulletin snapshot, 14 August 2022 07:00:58 UTC
- Full UK Pre-flight Information Bulletin snapshot, 15 November 2022 17:00:59 UTC
- Full UK Pre-flight Information Bulletin snapshot, 15 November 2022 18:00:16 UTC
- NtoM 28-2023: River Medway — Medway Approach Channel, SS Richard Montgomery Wreck Survey
- NtoM 35-2023: Approaches to Sheerness, SS Richard Montgomery Wreck — Hydrographic Survey Work
- NtoM 22-2024: Approaches to Sheerness, SS Richard Montgomery Wreck — Hydrographic Survey Work
- NtoM 48-2024: Approaches to Sheerness, SS Richard Montgomery Wreck — Hydrographic Survey Work
- NtoM 48-2024 updated 19 September: Approaches to Sheerness, SS Richard Montgomery Wreck — Hydrographic Survey Work
- SS Montgomery seabed surveys begin near Southend coast
- Tor Boreas beside the wreck during the CPT campaign — image 3F3YDPE
- Tor Boreas beside the wreck during the CPT campaign — image 3F3YFDT
- Tor Boreas beside the wreck during the CPT campaign — image 3F3YDPG
- Tor Boreas at the wreck during the CPT campaign — image 3F485PM
- Tor Boreas at the wreck during the CPT campaign — image 3F485R6
- SS Richard Montgomery: Masts — Commons Adjournment debate
- MLA/2021/00240 initial application — SS Richard Montgomery Mast Reduction and Removal
- Briggs Thames Guardian surveying beside the wreck — image 2H2JJR4
- Briggs Thames Guardian surveying beside the wreck — image 2H50B63
- Briggs Thames Guardian conducting geophysical surveys at the wreck — image 2T4DNW1
- NtoM 41-2021: SS Richard Montgomery Wreck Survey
- NtoM 41-2021 updated 28 October: SS Richard Montgomery Wreck Survey
- NtoM 44-2021: Marine Management Organisation Licence Application for SS Richard Montgomery Mast Reduction and Removal
- ‘Objects’ found on the seabed delay removal of the masts of munitions ship SS Richard Montgomery sunk off the coast of Sheerness
- Plan to remove masts of SS Richard Montgomery bomb ship off Sheppey to be reviewed by Department for Transport
- S&MOCB/3401 - Provision of Unexploded Ordnance Services
- Department for Transport Annual Report and Accounts 2025-2026
- Convoy HX 301
- SS RICHARD MONTGOMERY (US) — ONI casualty-index card
- Admiralty War Diary — Home Commands, Casualties and Defects, 20 August 1944
- Convoy list item HXM301 naming Richard Montgomery
- The explosive cargo of the SS Richard Montgomery: a study into the developing hazard from a marine wreck
- F Willecke report on Richard Montgomery arrival, anchoring, grounding and first response
- Declassified-marked Secret Log for a United States Merchant Vessel: Richard Montgomery bundle
- Retrospective account by Richard Montgomery Armed Guard signalman Lenny Nadel
- Carver quotation and McFadzean memorandum provenance audit
- Jacksonville municipal records concerning the new St. Johns River Shipbuilding yard
- COM 6 - War Diary, 6/1-30/43
- Permanent Report of Completed Ship Construction Contracts, Report B-1
- Industrial unit fire — Highlands Farm, East Hanningfield
- Daily Weather Report, August 1944
- Simple English Wikipedia SS Richard Montgomery 15,000-ton claim revision-history checkpoint
- Wilkie/Willecke and inquiry-outcome citation-lineage audit
- DNC-5: Communication Instructions, 1944
- IANA Time Zone Database: Europe source file
- Review of available information on the SS Richard Montgomery
Claims
- The March 2000 MCA report estimated 1,400 tonnes of explosiv...
- Dstl's Phase 2 judged live-munition or surrogate testing wou...
- By the 2021 report, DfT planned to reduce the height of all ...
- The 2021 and 2022 survey reports retrospectively state that ...
- In March 1965 the Government said a 1952 explosives-expert a...
- In December 1967 the Government said the US Army report foun...
- The 1998 and March 2000 MCA reports attribute their itemised...
- The GOV.UK edition published on 8 June 2020 said monitoring ...
- By 15 June 2023 DfT publicly said autumn-2022 detailed surve...
- The published contract says an Expert Advisory Group was for...
- S&MOCB/3372 required four phases: RAMS, environmental assess...
- DfT and MCA announced that Resolve would begin the principal...
- The July 2026 release identifies Exord Ltd as DfT's speciali...
- The official vessel status card identifies Richard Montgomer...
- The June 1998 official report still described the remaining ...
- The vessel-specific federal status card records that Richard...
- Later MCA accounts state that Richard Montgomery left the Un...
- The 20 August 1944 Admiralty War Diary says Richard Montgome...
- The same War Diary records that at 08:04 on 20 August the ma...
- Capt. Brookes reported on 20 August that all holds were then...
- The 20 August War Diary describes Richard Montgomery's cargo...
- An official ONI casualty-index card describes grounding/cons...
- A signed report dated 21 August 1944 identifies Richard Mont...
- Willecke reported pilot J Newall boarding at 14:02 on 15 Aug...
- Willecke reported being informed by chief mate L Guder at 05...
- The 1972 study says its 6,862-short-ton / 6,127-imperial-ton...
- The 1972 study says T P Adams loaned its authors daily salva...
- On 22 February 1972 E G Whitbread, HM Chief Inspector of Exp...
- The exact public claim that Richard Montgomery loaded 15,000...
- English Wikipedia revision 1364609955 calls the master Capta...
- Willecke's signed report says he removed the crew to stand b...
- Willecke's signed 21 August report states that the weather w...