An elevated view looking from the cliffs to the starboard beam of the battleship HMS Montagu (1901) aground off Shutter Point, Lundy. Her stern is submerged with waves washing over the upper deck between the two masts. A suspended walkway has been erected from the cliffs to the foremast. The four 12-inch guns have been removed from their barbettes and taken ashore.

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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. The 12-inch guns were removed from the battleship between 8 September, with the foreward guns, and the last of the after guns removed on 30 September anfd towed to Pembroke dockyard on 1 October 1906 [Whispers from the Fleet by C. Craddock, 1908].