sentences:  In September 1899 Burney took command of his old ship HMS "Hawke" and in 1900 became the captain of cruiser HMS "Sappho", initially on the North American Station, but soon transferred to the Cape of Good Hope Station for operational service in the Second Boer War.HMS "Sappho" struck the Durban bar on 3 May 1901, although she was under the command of a pilot at the time and Burney was not to blame, and returned to the United Kingdom for repairs.On 27 May 1902 he was appointed in command of the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS "Resolution", as Flag Captain to Rear-Admiral George Atkinson-Willes, Second-in-Command of the Home Fleet, during the Coronation Review for King Edward VII.