Simon Mason wrote
Rod Speed wrote

He should have been charged and jailed for doing that.

He was a man of honour.

He was in fact a terminal ****wit.

Soon after midnight on Saturday 6 October 1901, Lightoller,
accompanied by two shipmates, quietly rowed to the fortress
and climbed its tower. They accessed the fort by means of the
lightning conductor and hoisted a makeshift Boer flag on the tower.

They loaded a cannon with 14 lb (6.4 kg) of blasting powder
and a similar amount of fine-grain powder and rammed in
a harmless wad of white cotton waste. They lit a 50 ft (15 m)
fuse, and while escaping in desperation, their small rowboat
was found to have been holed by rocks.

So he was an even more incompetent ****wit than you...

The three managed to row to shore, run through Government
House grounds, and reach Circular Quay by the time the cannon
went off with "a huge flash", followed by "a crash like thunder" ...
"just as the Post Office clock had struck the hour of 1 a.m."

Dont believer that they could do that in 15 mins.

Lightoller's plan was to fool the locals into believing a Boer raiding
party was attacking Sydney and had captured Fort Denison.

Why the **** would a Boer raiding party bother with Fort Denison,
which happens to be a tiny island in Sydney Harbour ?

When the heavy gun went off, the resounding bang blew
out windows and woke residents, who leapt from their
beds to see what was happening. When a Boer flag was
found fluttering in the dawn breeze there was panic.

Bull**** there was. Its a tiny island in Sydney harbour.

The local press dismissed the episode as
"a foolish and mad brained business",

Spot on. Stupid childish stunt too.

for which the culprits were never found.The only reported damage
was the breakage of some windows at Fort Denison. Lightoller's
only admission was to the line's Marine Superintendent, "Daddy"
Hewitt in Liverpool, who laughed, tore up Lightoller's resignation,
and told him to get back to his ship.

Pity about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charle...eged_war_crime