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Richard Todd played Kerans for the 1957 movie Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst (in the USA released most often as Battle Hell, but also as Escape of the Amethyst and Their Greatest Glory). For the movie, Amethyst was brought out of storage to play itself.
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957) is a British war film that tells the story of the British sloop HMS Amethyst caught up in the Chinese Civil War and involved in the 1949 Yangtze Incident. Directed by Michael Anderson, it stars Richard Todd, William Hartnell, and Akim Tamiroff. It was based upon the book written by Lawrence ...
Leslie Frank, Yangtse River Incident 1949: The Diary of Coxswain Leslie Frank: HMS Amethyst - Yangtse River 19/4/49 to 31/7/49 (2004) ISBN 1-84342-756-7; Edwyn Gray, Frigate Under Fire: HMS Amethyst's 100 Days of Hell (1987) Malcolm H. Murfett, Hostage on the Yangtze: Britain, China, and the Amethyst Crisis of 1949 (1991) ISBN 0-87021-289-3
One such heroic cat was Simon, who famously guarded his soldiers aboard the HMS Amethyst, a guard ship deployed to protect the British Embassy in Nanjing, China, amidst the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
Simon (c. 1947 – 28 November 1949) was a ship's cat who served on the Royal Navy sloop-of-war HMS Amethyst.In 1949, during the Yangtze Incident, he received the PDSA's Dickin Medal after surviving injuries from an artillery shell, raising morale, and killing off a rat infestation during his service.
The Yangtze Incident [ edit ] As Assistant British Naval Attaché in then Nanking , China in 1949, Lieutenant-Commander Kerans took command of HMS Amethyst when the ship came under fire on the Yangtze River during the final stages of the Chinese Civil War after the captain and 16 others were killed in the shelling. [ 2 ]
Educated at Harrow School, Berger joined the Royal Navy in 1943 and served in the Second World War, taking part in the Normandy landings while serving in the cruiser HMS Ajax. [1] [2] He also took part in the Yangtse Incident while serving as Navigating Officer aboard HMS Amethyst in 1949 and was seriously wounded in the incident. [3]
HMS Amethyst (1873) was an Amethyst-class screw corvette launched in 1873 and sold in 1887. HMS Amethyst (1903) was a Topaze-class cruiser launched in 1903 and scrapped in 1920. HMS Amethyst (F116) was a modified Black Swan-class sloop launched in 1943. She was later designated as a frigate, was involved in the Yangtze Incident in 1949 and was ...