THE WRECK OF THE MONTAGU : SKETCH OF THE UNFORTUNATE BATTLESHIP ON THE ROCKS, LUNDY ISLAND. Named after one of the most famous admirals" who lias figured in British naval history, the Montagu bears a name which figures conspicuously in the war annals of the fleet. A vessel of her name took part in the battle off Lowestoft in 1665; another, a century or so later, fought in Quiberon Bay and assisted at the capture of Martinique, subsequently bearing the brunt of hard fighting at St. Vincent. A Montagu was with Rodney in his action with Do Guichen. and assisted Hood and Rodney in their two lights with De Grasse in 1782, while a conspicuous place in the stories of the battles of the "Glorious First, of June" and of Oamperdown is also assigned to this ship. A century elapsed before this famous name was revived in the battleship which is now ashore off Lund.v. She is a vessel of 14,000 tons, and carries four 12in, twelve 6in, twelve 12pr.,, and six 3pr. guns, besides two machine weapons. She is 405 ft long, with a beam of 75-ift, and a. draught of Fitted with engines of 18.285 indicated horse-power and Belleville watertube boilers, she had a speed at her trials of nearly nineteen knots, and has always proved an excellent sea-going vessel under all conditions. She is armoured with a belt 7iri thick, and is otherwise well protected, though less thickly than most ■ battleships of the British fleet. She carries a crew 'of 750 officers and men, and was completed for sea in ISO 3, and cost £1,500,000 to build and equip.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13226, 11 July 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE WRECK OF THE MONTAGU : SKETCH OF THE UNFORTUNATE BATTLESHIP ON THE ROCKS, LUNDY ISLAND. Named after one of the most famous admirals" who lias figured in British naval history, the Montagu bears a name which figures conspicuously in the war annals of the fleet. A vessel of her name took part in the battle off Lowestoft in 1665; another, a century or so later, fought in Quiberon Bay and assisted at the capture of Martinique, subsequently bearing the brunt of hard fighting at St. Vincent. A Montagu was with Rodney in his action with Do Guichen. and assisted Hood and Rodney in their two lights with De Grasse in 1782, while a conspicuous place in the stories of the battles of the "Glorious First, of June" and of Oamperdown is also assigned to this ship. A century elapsed before this famous name was revived in the battleship which is now ashore off Lund.v. She is a vessel of 14,000 tons, and carries four 12in, twelve 6in, twelve 12pr.,, and six 3pr. guns, besides two machine weapons. She is 405 ft long, with a beam of 75-ift, and a. draught of Fitted with engines of 18.285 indicated horse-power and Belleville watertube boilers, she had a speed at her trials of nearly nineteen knots, and has always proved an excellent sea-going vessel under all conditions. She is armoured with a belt 7iri thick, and is otherwise well protected, though less thickly than most ■ battleships of the British fleet. She carries a crew 'of 750 officers and men, and was completed for sea in ISO 3, and cost £1,500,000 to build and equip.