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HMS Montagu

Shutter Rock, Lundy

A brand-new battleship run aground in fog.

HMS Montagu was one of the Navy's newest battleships. In thick fog off Lundy, her officers thought they were somewhere else and drove her onto the rocks.

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When
30 May 1906
Where
51.1650, -4.6700
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

Lundy is reached by the MS Oldenburg from Bideford or Ilfracombe.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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