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Neatly balanced
Hoisting a 12-pounder out of the 'Powerful'



Taking guns ashore
Showing how the guns are packed on the barge

Source: www.angloboerwar.com/forum/19-ephemera/3...-jack?start=78#94196

Mounting a 4.7-inch gun, landed from H.M.S. Terrible, onto one of Captain Percy Scott's improvised carriages on the quayside at Durban. Probably taken on 8th November 1899.
Photographs by J.E. Middlebrook, Durban.





"Q.133 / An interesting item in the defence of Durban - mounting a 'big gun' 4.7 from 'H.M.S. Terrible' / Boer War 1899 / J.E.M. / Photo"



Hauling the same gun along West Street, Durban, on 8th November.



"Q.80 / Naval Detachment 125 strong drawing the 4.7 45-pounder, landed from 'H.M.S. Terrible', through West Street, Durban / Boer War 1899 / J.E.M. / Photo"

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I'd be intrigued to know how this shell was intact enough to reconstruct, and what the fuze was - star shell perhaps? or a dud?

I recently acquired this superb lantern slide, used by war correspondent René Bull (of "Black and White" magazine) during his lecture tours after returning from South Africa.
It shows one of H.M.S. Terrible's 4.7-inch Naval Guns being hauled into position during the battle of Colenso.

Due to a severe bout of malarial fever, René Bull was forced to return from the seat of war in early April 1900. Within two weeks of landing at Kingstown, Ireland, he embarked upon an extensive lecture tour of the British Isles, his first venue being the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin (on 23rd April). Reports indicate that his lecture included 200 lantern slides.
It is interesting to note that the studio that mounted the slides, T. Mason of 5 Dame Street, was just eight minutes' walk from the Gaiety.









Below are photographs of the bases of two 4.7-inch shell cases.
The first, fired by the Natal Naval Volunteers (attached to the Naval Brigade) during the Battle of Spion Kop, is inscribed "ONE OF THE / Lyddite shell Cylinders / FIRED AT SPION KOP, on the 24th Jan / 1900 / by the / NATAL NAVAL VOLUNTEERS / WITH THE / Naval Brigade".
The second is inscribed on its side "4.7 / H.M.S. DORIS / ZWARTS KOP / KRUGERSDORP / SEPR 1900".
I have annotated the latter example, indicating the meaning of the various headstamps.







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Hello Neville, These engraved cartage cases and shells do greatly intrigue me, thank you for posting the photos.

Hi, Does anyone know if any 4.7 inch guns from the Boer War still exist?