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Article: UNITED KINGDOM: ROYAL NAVY DETONATE WWII BOMB IN RIVER MERSEY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 17, 2006
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The government of United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence's Royal Navy issued the following news release:
A World War II German bomb was discovered in the Mersey estuary late on Monday night, 15 May 2006, during a routine survey of the waters by Royal Navy warships and underwater search teams.
A 300 metre exclusion zone was immediately imposed around the bomb - estimated by RN divers to weigh 1,000lb - after the Liverpool Coastguard, police and Liverpool Port Authority were informed.
The bomb was lying only 80 metres from the 12 Quays jetty on the Birkenhead side of the Mersey port, posing a threat to the roll-on, roll-off ferry terminal, to shipping and to the Mersey Tunnels.
Divers from a ...