Object number : AR.1981.176.1.327

Production date/period : 1906
Production place : Lundy

General Description : A photograph showing a view from the Duncan class pre-dreadnought battleship HMS MONTAGU (1901) aground off Lundy Island looking toward YARD CRAFT No. 34 that is moored off starboard side of the ship, salvaging a sunken salvage pontoon (called a camel). Labelled as ‘Dockyard Lighter which recovered the lost camel’ and is in a series of images titled ‘The Loss of H.M.S. "MONTAGU". May 30th 1906'.

Copyright holder : Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery

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