• Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Amethyst, whilst another was planned: HMS Amethyst (1793) was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate, originally the...
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    Nationalist Government, and four British Royal Navy ships HMS Amethyst, HMS Black Swan, HMS Consort and HMS London. The British warships, whose right of passage...
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    HMS Amethyst was a modified Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Alexander Stephen and Sons of Linthouse, Govan, Scotland on...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    HMS Amethyst was a third-class protected cruiser of the Topaze class of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1903, served during World War I at the Dardanelles...
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    HMS London, pennant number C69, was a member of the second group of the County-class heavy cruisers of the Royal Navy. She and her sisters; Sussex, Shropshire...
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  • franchise My-Otome Amethyst (Steven Universe), a fictional character from Steven Universe HMS Amethyst, various British warships USS Amethyst (PYc-3), of the...
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    U-boats between 1943 and 1944 as part of the 2nd Escort Group. In 1949, HMS Amethyst, a Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy became involved in an international...
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    HMS Amethyst was the lead ship of the Amethyst-class corvettes built for the Royal Navy in the early 1870s. She participated in the Third Anglo-Ashanti...
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    the rebel-held Peruvian monitor Huáscar and the British ships HMS Shah and HMS Amethyst. The vessels did not inflict significant damage on each other...
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    Station's headquarters ship during the April 1949 Amethyst Incident, in which a British sloop, HMS Amethyst, was trapped in the Yangtze River by the communist...
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    HMS Amethyst was a gaff rigged three mast sailing boat. She was a Spartan-class 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1844 and sold in 1869 for use as a cable...
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  • HMS Amethyst was launched in 1790 as the French frigate Perle. The British Royal Navy took possession of her at Toulon in 1793. She was wrecked in 1795...
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    HMS Amethyst was a Royal Navy 36-gun Penelope-class fifth-rate frigate, launched in 1799 at Deptford. Amethyst served in the French Revolutionary Wars...
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    The international situation led to her being escorted by the battlecruiser HMS Hood. She arrived safely and set out again for New York on 1 September. By...
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    1957 film Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst was filmed on the river. The naval shore establishment at HMS Ganges also featured in the film being...
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  • (1956) as Doug Beale Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957) as Store's Rating HMS Amythest These Dangerous Years (1957) as The Juggler...
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    Junior School, near Bath, whose crest was a magpie. HMS Magpie stood in for the moving shots of HMS Amethyst in the film Yangtse Incident in 1957. A concentration...
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    ship's cat of HMS Amethyst during the Yangtze Incident in 1949 and was wounded in the bombardment of the ship which killed 25 of Amethyst's crew, including...
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  • Distinguished Service Order. The Amethyst incident was later the subject of a film entitled Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst (1957), in which Kerans...
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    HMS Implacable was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was originally the French Navy's Téméraire-class ship of the line Duguay-Trouin...
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  • in 1798 and sold in March 1803. HMS Garland (1800), originally a French 22-gun privateer called Mars that HMS Amethyst captured in 1800 and that was wrecked...
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    Nanjing by 23 April without encountering much resistance. Meanwhile, HMS Amethyst of the British Royal Navy drifted into the fray and was set upon by PLA...
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  • carrier: HMS Triumph, HMS Ocean, HMS Theseus, HMS Glory, HMS Unicorn, HMS Warrior Cruiser: Belfast, HMS Jamaica, HMS Ceylon, HMS Kenya, HMS Newcastle, HMS Birmingham...
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    took part in the Yangtze Incident when she, with others, went to aid of HMS Amethyst. Black Swan suffered 12 men wounded and severe damage to her superstructure...
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    U-1276 was sunk with depth charges by HMS Amethyst. The action resulted in the loss of all 49 of the U-boat's crew. HMS Vervain is a Designated vessel under...
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  • Shanghai she was the first British warship to enter the Yangtse river since HMS Amethyst escaped in 1949. Alacrity participated in the Falklands War, departing...
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  • to: German submarine U-16, various vessels HMS Amethyst (U16), a Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy HMS Grimsby (U16), a Grimsby-class sloop of the...
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    Station under Admiral de Horsey, relieving HMS Repulse. On 29 May 1877, in company with the corvette HMS Amethyst, she fought an action near Ilo, Peru, the...
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