The HMS Amethyst, under diplomatic anchorage, was sailing up the Yangtze River to Nanking to relieve the HMS Consort of her guard ship duty when all of a sudden communist Chinese batteries started ...

In April 1949, the Amethyst was ordered to sail up the Yangtze River from Shanghai to Nanking, then relieve the HMS Consort of her duties. China was in the midst of a bloody civil war between the ...

And on the mighty Yangtze river—the third-longest in the world—sailed the British frigate HMS Amethyst. There was nothing special about the Amethyst in size or reputation. Built in 1942 ...

During April 1949 the frigate HMS Amethyst was on her way from Shanghai to Nanking to replace HMS Consort which was standing as guardship for the British embassy there during the Chinese Civil War.

BACK in 1954 a buzz of excitement went round Londonderry with the news that the famous ship HMS Amethyst was to be 'mothballed' at Lisahally, as part of the Royal Navy's Reserve Fleet. Amethyst ...

The soldiers died in the Yangtse River Incident in 1949, when the warship HMS Amethyst came under fire from Chinese Communist forces during a 101 day siege. Despite being badly wounded by shrapnel ...

As a 17-year-old boy sailor, he was hit and wounded at what became known as the Yangtze incident, when Chinese forces opened fire on HMS Amethyst. Portsmouth’s pride as hundreds fill Guildhall ...

Shipwrecks rarely get discovered, the SHIPS project says, but the last one identified off our waters was HMS Amethyst, found seven years ago. Launched in 1799, the majestic ship helped the Navy ...

No, it's not named after a semi-precious stone, but a mostly forgotten British frigate. HMS Amethyst's escape from the Yangtze in 1949, during the closing stages of the Chinese civil war ...

Able Seacat Simon was a black-and-white cat who served on the HMS Amethyst in 1948 when the British vessel was in Hong Kong. The next year, while the ship was en route to guard the British embassy ...

Barnsley, Eng.: Seaforth Pen & Sword / Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2015. Pp. x, 276. Illus., map, appends., notes, biblio., index. $45.95. ISBN: 1848322240 ...