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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?