Editing Lundy (section)

====Wreck of Battleship ''Montagu''====
[[File:HMS Montagu (1901) Aground Lundy Island 1906.jpg|thumb|left|Battleship [[HMS Montagu (1901)|HMS ''Montagu'']] aground on Lundy in 1906]]
Steaming in heavy [[fog]], the [[Royal Navy]] [[battleship]] {{HMS|Montagu|1901|6}} ran hard aground near Shutter Rock on Lundy's southwest corner at about 2:00&nbsp;a.m. on 30 May 1906.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Burt |first=R. A. |title=British Battleships 1889–1904 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |date=1988 |pages=205–206 |isbn=978-0-87021-061-7}}</ref> Thinking they were aground at [[Hartland Point]] on the English mainland, a landing party went ashore for help, only finding out where they were after encountering the [[lighthouse]] keeper at the island's north light.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Coutanche |first=André |title=History 1836–1925 – the Heaven era |url= https://www.lundy.org.uk/about-lundy/history/1836-1925 |access-date=31 January 2024 |website=The Lundy Field Society}}</ref>

[[File:HMS Montagu (1901) Heavy Fittings Removed 1906.jpg|thumb|right|HMS ''Montagu'' during the failed salvage attempts of the summer of 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.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shepstone |first=Harold J. |date=21 September 1907 |title=Breaking Up the Ill-fated British Battleship ''Montagu'' |url= https://zenodo.org/records/2138490 |journal=[[Scientific American]] |page=211 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican09211907-211 |via=Zenodo |volume=97 |issue=12}}</ref> ''Montagu'' was scrapped at the scene over the next fifteen years. Diving clubs still visit the site, where armour plating remains among the rocks and kelp.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Booth |first=Tony |url= http://archive.org/details/admiraltysalvage0000boot |title=Admiralty Salvage: In Peace & War 1906–2006 |date=2007 |publisher=Pen & Sword Maritime |isbn=978-1-84415-565-1 |location=Barnsley, S. Yorkshire |page=14}}</ref>