2-618-837 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The scene on the Victory during the court-martial, 1906. The court-martial of Captain Thomas B. S. Adair and Lieutenant J. H. Dathan on board the Victory, Plymouth. The men were charged with having negligently or by default hazard, stranded, and lost the ship. The ship in question being the H.M.S Montagu, which on 30th May 1906 during radio communication trials carried out in thick fog, ran into Shutter Rock on the southwest corner of Lundy Island. From The Tatler Volume 21 [The Tatler, London, 1906]