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Further sites are shown on the accompanying map. The smaller sites include the Firth of Clyde the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth the sound of Mull sea around Alderney and Guernsey Orford Ness, Suffolk Loch Linnhe, in Highland and Strathclyde Whitesand Bay, off Plymouth and the sea near Milford Haven, Dyfed. The munition types dumped ranged from small arms ammunition, through large calibre artillery and naval shells, to heavy aircraft bombs. Other sites were used for small scale dumping operations, but it is difficult to identify these from the records that survive.”
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Beaufort’s Dyke was the UK’s main sea dump site during this period, with Hurds Deep (1,000 miles off Land’s End) being used to a lesser degree. Regrettably, few records of the disposal programme now exist. “We estimate that over one million tonnes of conventional munitions were sea-dumped by all three services during 1946 to 1963. He says that the ministry cooperated with the Ministry of Agriculture to select sites to dump the surplus munitions and chemical weapons. “This means that they can have no idea what has happened to these weapons, which could be in rusting containers.”ĭetails of both exercises have been released in a letter from a Ministry of Defence official. “I am extremely concerned that as well as never monitoring what has happened to these arms and chemicals, the ministry now admits it has lost most of the records,” he said. The fresh details have come to light in letters and parliamentary answers to David Clark, Labour’s defence spokesman, who yesterday renewed his demand for monitoring of the sea bed. Another 14,000 tonnes of the poisonous gas phosgene were “loose dumped” in Beaufort’s Dyke in the Irish Sea in 19. It has lost the names of two ships scuttled in 19. The ministry says 24 ships containing chemical weapons were sunk between 19.