A view from the port side of the main mast looking forward towards the fore bridge and foremast of the battleship HMS Montagu (1901) aground off Shutter Point, Lundy. The photographer was standing on the port side of the after bridge and part of the mast at deck level can be seen on the right. The boat deck and parts of the upper deck have been removed, including the hydraulic gear for working the boat hoist (the central gully), during the salvage work undertaken between June and October 1906. The cliffs off Shutter Point are in the background where the suspended walkway can be seen leading from the ship to the cliff.

Emulsion flaw in bottom left corner.

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].