Percy Scott
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Admiral Sir Percy Moreton Scott, 1st Baronet, was a British Royal Navy officer and a pioneer in modern naval gunnery. During his career he proved to be an engineer and problem solver of some considera
Sir Percy Scott
Scott caricatured by Spy in Vanity Fair, 1903
A naval gun on a "Percy Scott" improvised gun carriage during the Second Boer War.
Captain Percy Scott
HMS Terrible (1895)
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HMS Terrible was the second and last of the Powerful-class protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. She served on the China Station and provided landing parties and guns which partici
Percy Scott
…Scylla returned to England in June 1899 and paid off. Scott had a few months leave on half-pay, and was then given command of the much larger cruiser HMS Terrible (14,400 tons) which was ordered to China. Expecting hostilities to break out in South Africa, Scott managed to persuade the Admiralty to allow him to…
HMS Terrible at an unknown date
Terrible at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Fleet Review, July 1897
Scott's improvised signal light
A 12-pounder gun on one of Scott's carriages in Natal, South Africa