Stranding place of HMS Montagu
United Kingdom /
England /
Flexbury /
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/ United Kingdom
/ England
/ Flexbury
ship wreck, battleship, invisible
The Royal Navy battleship HMS Montagu steaming in heavy fog, when she ran hard aground near Shutter Rock on the island's southwest corner at about 2:00 a.m. on 30 May 1906.
Strenuous efforts by the Royal Navy to salvage the badly damaged battleship during the summer of 1906 failed, and in 1907 it was decided to give up and sell her for scrap. Montagu was scrapped at the scene over the next fifteen years. Diving clubs still visit the site, where armour plate and live 12-inch (305-millimetre) shells remain on the seabed.
www.submerged.co.uk/hms-montagu-lundy-island.php
Strenuous efforts by the Royal Navy to salvage the badly damaged battleship during the summer of 1906 failed, and in 1907 it was decided to give up and sell her for scrap. Montagu was scrapped at the scene over the next fifteen years. Diving clubs still visit the site, where armour plate and live 12-inch (305-millimetre) shells remain on the seabed.
www.submerged.co.uk/hms-montagu-lundy-island.php
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Montagu_(1901)
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Coordinates: 51°9'33"N 4°40'26"W
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