Records lost of chemicals and arms dumped at sea - archive, 1995

28 April 1995: Ministry of Defence has lost details of munitions and chemical weapons ships dumped in the sea around Britain between 1945 and 1963

The Ministry of Defence has lost records of more than one million tonnes of munitions and details of 24 chemical weapons ships dumped in the sea around the British Isles between 1945 and 1963.

The disclosure follows the Guardian’s revelations last month about Operation Sandcastle in 1955, the scuttling in the Irish Sea of three ships containing German nerve gas and arsenic, which have never been monitored by the ministry.

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