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cruiser, HMS Terrible,and was immediately ordered to South Africa. On his own initiative he
had designed and built a land-carriage for one of his long 12-pounder guns and when he learned that
the lights of Kimberley could be seen by the British, proposed mounting one of Terrible’ssearchlights
on a railway truck to use for signalling. When speaking of this to his commander-in-chief, Admiral
Sir Robert Harris, the need for big guns in Lady-smith was casually mentioned. Sir Robert had been
told that the Navy’s 4.7-inch gun could not be mounted for shore use. Scott said otherwise. He
designed a mounting of great baulks of timber which could be bolted together and then unbolted as
required, ideal for static defence. At 5 p.m. the following day HMS Powerfulsailed for Durban with
four 12-pounders and two 4.7-inch guns with their mountings. The heavy guns arrived on the last train
into Ladysmith before the siege began.
HMS Terriblewas then ordered to Durban where Scott became Military Commandant. Here he
built mobile carriages for 4.7-inch guns and also mounted one on a railway truck. Two of these and
sixteen 12-pounders accompanied Sir Redvers Buller on his way to fight the Battle of Colenso in
December 1899. After the relief of Ladysmith HMS Terriblejoined the China Fleet. Scott remained at
the forefront of naval thinking, pointing out, after the First World War, that the submarine and the
aircraft had made the battleship redundant, a view that was rejected until the next war showed him to
be correct.
See also:
Artillery, British; Ladysmith, Siege of.
Reference:
Crowe, George, The Commission of HMS Terrible (London, George Newnes, 1903); Hall, Darrell,
ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer War
(Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999).
Senekal
Senekal lies on the Winburg to Bethlehem road in the Orange Free State. It was occupied and
reoccupied by both British and Boers through the war. When the British were first advancing from
Bloemfontein, Lieutenant-general Sir Leslie Rundle’s 8th Division was covering the eastern flank to
prevent Boers moving around behind the advance. A company of the 11th Imperial Yeomanry was
attacked soon after arriving in Senekal on 25 May 1900, resulting in four men killed, four wounded
and thirteen taken as prisoners. Rundle arrived soon after and went on the fight just to the east at
Biddulphsberg.
See also:
Biddulphsberg, Battle of.
Reference:
Marix Evans, Martin, The Boer War: South Africa 1899–1902 (Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 1999).
Shrapnel
A type of artillery projectile invented by Lieutenant Henry Shrapnel, RA, in 1784. The shell is filled
with small,
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