SS Richard Montgomery I was just surfing the internet and I found some information about what lies off the shore of Southend. It's all pretty worrying especially when you read that it may contain weapons such as mustard gas.
This is a ‘Phoenix’ caisson, its back broken, lying on the West Knock sandbank about 1.8 km off Thorpe Bay. The caisson is a section of temporary ‘Mulberry Harbour’ intended to be used in the Normandy landings following D Day, for the rapid re-supply of troops. The Mulberry Harbours were planned to extend 3.5 km along the coast and extend 1.75 km out to sea. The Mulberry Harbour formed at Arromanches played a crucial role in on the success of the landings. This caisson was being towed from Immingham, on the Humber, to Southsea in the run up to D Day, when it sprang a leak and was brought into the Thames estuary and allowed to sink. The Mulberry Harbour also gives its name to the Mulberry Restaurant, Roslin Hotel in Thorpe Bay.
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