Production date/period : 1906
Production place : Lundy

General Description : A photograph showing a view of a Royal Navy Captain and his Chief Engineer talking beside a piece of salvage equipment setup amidships onboard the Duncan class pre-dreadnought battleship HMS MONTAGU (1901) aground off Lundy Island, there is a Midshipman examining the equipment in the foreground. Labelled as ‘Captain & Engineer Commandr [sic] holding a consultt [sic] by an air engine’ and is No. 36 in a series of images titled ‘The Loss of H.M.S. "MONTAGU". May 30th 1906'.

Copyright holder : Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery