A group of seven men standing behind a salvaged and damaged boiler on the upper deck of the battleship HMS Montagu (1901) aground off Shutter Point, Lundy. The boat deck and parts of the upper deck have been removed during the salvage work undertaken between June and October 1906. The photographer was on the upper deck looking aft and to port with the after bridge in the background.

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. The salvage work stopped on 10 October and the damaged salvage boilers and winches were removed on 11 October by crew from HMS Doris. [Whispers from the Fleet by C. Craddock, 1908].