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 low in the water with the sea washing into the gap abaft the after gun turret. Part of the port side upper deck between the masts has been blasted away and removed. 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, a task completed on 1 October 1906.

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 forward guns, and the last of the after guns removed on 30 September and towed to Pembroke dockyard on 1 October 1906 [Whispers from the Fleet by C. Craddock, 1908].