Re: Demolition - BBC1

Richard Brooks wrote:

I only caught the last two programmes out of four and there were
fascinating little snippets such as that if there was an explosion on
the SS Richard Montgomery, the ship that was carrying explosives from
the States for the war effort in WWII and had run aground and sunk on
the sand bank near the Isle of Sheppey, the wall of water would flood
Holland!

When you consider the dozens of miles of defences that the Dutch have built
around Holland, I'm surprised they haven't built a few hundred metres of
dyke around the Richard Montgomery.


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