Show BATTLESHIP MAY MAYBE I BE TOTAL WRECK I H M S Montague Goes on the t Rocks Racks and Remains Hard HardI I and Fast SHIP LISMORE ORE GOES DOWN OF HER CREW PERISH Lundy Island England May JOH 1 S Montague is ashore at Shut r Point The battleship is 15 In a bad position She struck during a dense fog The Montague Is a 8 twin of 1000 tons attached to the Channel fleet Her captain Is Thomas B and her commander George E ES S Fetch The Montague struck on a granite cone southwest or of Lundy Island known as Shutter Point as this morning and remains on the rocks with a bad hole In her bottom in the fore part of her starboard side Several of her bel compart compartments compartments ments are full of water and the engine room boner boiler rooms and are flooded ed The battleship lIes listed h av fly to starboard with water above her torpedo nets and still gaining She has both propellers and her ap apparatus apparatus and besides has several holes in plates The sea remains smooth With a mod moderate moderate erate ground swell and a gentle south to southwest breeze but a thick tog fog pre valls The Montague was proceeding to Pen Penzance Penzance zance in preparation for the forthcoming maneuvers and apparently missed her in a fog She appears to tobe be firmly fixed on the rocks and if a storm springs up her position will be very perilous The battleship Duncan and the dock dockard dockyard yard ard tug Alligator have arrived here and andare andare are standing by the Montague to render any assistance possible |