THE date is April 20, 1949 and China is in the middle of a bloody civil war. The Communist People’s Liberation Army led by Mao Tse Tung and the nationalist Kuomintang are at each other’s throats on ...

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.

A NAVAL veteran of the epic 103-day siege of the Royal Navy frigate HMS Amethyst on China's Yangtse river by Chinese communist troops 50 years ago this month has launched an appeal to try to trace two ...

The year was 1949 and he was certainly an unlikely hero. For the male in question was in fact a little black and white cat called Simon. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Quite how a stray cat ...

Second world war veteran Stewart Hett wore many hats while serving as a lieutenant on the British frigate HMS Amethyst in Asia in the late 1940s. “I was responsible for the ship’s anchor and its ...

ROYAL Navy personnel at HMS Collingwood, Fareham, together with veterans and their families, came together recently to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Yangtze incident. With the Fleet ...

THE role of a naval crew which undertook one of the most daring rescue operations in British history is to be debated at Westminster today following a campaign by a Scots veteran. Did you know with a ...

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 made ...

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