An elevated middle-distant starboard bow view, taken from the cliffs, of the battleship HMS Montagu (1901) aground off Shutter Point, south-west point of Lundy. A large number of the battleship's pinnaces, whalers and boats are afloat between the rocks and the starboard broadside. A large dumb barge is tied alongside the ship, possibly to receive the first batch of 6-inch secondary guns from the superstructure casemates. These were removed on 1 June but the lighter sank later that day when it passed over Shutter rock. There is a lot of human activity on board the Montagu and in the boats. The flags have been doctored by the Gibsons.

On 30 May 1906, the battleship was on its way back to an anchorage off Lundy having conducted wireless telegraphy experiments when it struck Shutter Point in increasingly dense fog. The ship was stuck fast and a salvage operation was conducted over two months to remove the guns and other equipment.