{"id":524653,"date":"2026-04-11T05:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524653\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:31:14","slug":"petition-says-ss-richard-montgomery-masts-should-remain-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524653\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition says SS Richard Montgomery masts should remain local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The masts of an explosives-filled World War Two ship should be preserved after they are salvaged, according to a new petition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The SS Richard Montgomery&#8217;s masts have been visible from Kent and Essex since the US military vessel was wrecked in the Thames Estuary in 1944.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A petition is calling for the masts to be displayed locally after the UK government confirmed they would be removed for safety reasons related to explosives that remain within the wreck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US government, which owns the wreck, was contacted for comment, while the Department for Transport (DfT) said it was &#8220;too early&#8221; to say what will happen to the masts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The masts of an explosives-filled World War Two ship should be preserved after they are salvaged, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-524653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}