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Show GOES ON ROCKS IN HEAVY FOG Battleship Montague Is Wrecked at Shutter Point, England. LUNDT ISLAND. England. May 10. H. M. S. Montague Is ashore at Shutter Point The battleship is In a bad position-She position-She struck during; a dense fog. . . The Montague Is a twin-screw battleship battle-ship of 14,000 tons attached to the channel fleet. Her captain is Thomas B. Sadair and her commander George K. S. Petch. The Mentague struck on a granite cone, southwest of Lundy Island, known as Shutter Point, at 2:10 this morning and remains re-mains on the rocks with a bad hole In her bottom, in the forepart of her starboard side. Several of her compartments are full of water and the engine-room, boiler-rooms boiler-rooms and stokeholds are flooded. The battleship lies listed heavily to starboard with water above her torpedo nets and still gaining. She has lost both propellers propell-ers and ber wireless spparatus and besides be-sides has several holes in plates. The battleship Duncan and a number of other vessels are on their way to Shutter Point from various places to assist "the Montague. The sea remains smooth with a moderate ground swell and a gentle south to southwest breese, but a thick fog prevails. The Montague wss proceeding to Pen-sance Pen-sance in preparation for the forthcoming maneuvers and apparently missed ber course in a fog. She appears to be firmly fixed on the rocks and If a storm springs up her position will be very perilous. |