 Complete the following phrase:  Ordered home in 1899, Powerful was diverted from the shorter route through the Suez Canal to round the southern tip of Africa in light of rising tensions between the British and the Boers in South Africa. The ship departed Hong Kong, China, on 17 September and arrived at Simonstown on 13 October, two days after the Second Boer War began; Lambton having picked up a half-battalion of the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry from the island of Mauritius on his own initiative. Her sister ship, , commanded by Captain Percy Scott, arrived the following day and Scott improvised field carriages for a pair of 4.7-inch 120 mm and a pair of Terribles 12-pounder guns. After a request from Lieutet General George White, commander of the 