Yes.

This is probably the most interesting thing I will learn today :)

heh, I was buying my place near the river when someone said "when Montgomery finally explodes, will you be in the path?"... always in the back of my mind now.

I think the concerns about it are overstated (will take that back when we are all blown to bits). 

It is on the Nore bank near Sheerness.  Because it is on the sand bank it is visible to shipping (or at least the tips of the superstructure are.  It has about 14000 tonnes of explosives on board (some was recovered at an earlier stage and certain amounts since, bit by bit). Bit the likelihood of explosion is regarded by the MoD as remote.

Yes. Someone has made the calculation that the risk of moving and disposing of the explosives (which is enormous) outweighs the risk of leaving it in the hope that the explosives decay into the water over time. Meanwhile, Londoners are sitting on a powder keg.

Sorry, above was meant to say it "had" 14000. 

It now has three and a half thousand tons of explosives left, most contain TNT which does not get affected by seawater. But the fuses do.   It is likely that these have deteriorated to uselessness decades ago. The explosives would therefore need something else to set them off. Unfortunately, on the deck above the TNT these are approximately one hundred and seventy five tons of fully armed fragmentation cluster bombs. These are considered to be the main danger and have been the main salvage target, because if the decking collapses through rust, as it inevitably will, these bombs could fall on top of the remaining TNT explosive charges and, well, kaboom.

So they have been shifting that upper deck cargo for years, bit by bit.

You’d never see that up the posh end of the river, size of ship aside. 

I knew about it, but is interesting.

Did you see the one about the trench between NIreland and Scotland? One of the many reasons why Boris' tunnel was a daft idea is that it goes through a WW2 mustard gas dumping zone (aforementioned sea trench)

Work starting on removing the masts I think.

I did not know about this 

Very interesting 

Some areas of Kent which I have never heard of get flooded but seems London will be fine on all accounts 

Goes without saying that hopefully nothing ever happens!

I see your SS Richard Montgomery, and raise you the SS Mont-Blanc:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion

And this one event cost the lIves of 15% of all African-American lives lost in WW2:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster

Or this one in New York in 1916 that caused permanent damage to the arm of the statue of liberty

Black Tom explosion - Wikipedia

I thought the main concern was a nearby ship losing power and managing to hit it and set it off.

didn’t know about this

stands ready to blow a salty wet load all over Southend at any time

If it blows up big time it will reduce the Brexit supporting population by about half.