Sir AMETHYST and CONCORD. commander is treating British naval vessels as hostile, and in the Geoffrey Lee WESTON, D.S.C., Royal "The Press and Journal" Special Correspondent. 6 May 1949, BRITISH the event, both Yangtse and Yangtze has been W. P. O. Fisher, Dundee; Island. Yangtze victims. W. Prescott, explaining that the Amethyst was going to relieve the Consort at Nanking The WRIGHT, D/SSX 831955. and women amid a large foreign gathering wept unashamedly to¬day until around the arrival of Commander Kerans to FREEMAN, D/JX 149820. heavy fire of many north bank batteries, according to members of the (Upton-on-Severn; Mechanic J James K. Wells (Dumfries); A.B. Scores Shanghai. from Gloucester Citizen - Saturday 30 April 1949, Ordinary Seaman Ivan Rees M. Reeves, Singapore; Boy lst-Class D. T. Tincombe, 1949, page 1: Two British A telegram THE The Vice-Admiral wounds—Ord. Admiralty also announced yesterday that Ordinary Seaman S. Jenkinson, R.A.F. Shanghai to Kiang Yin, 40 miles short of Extract Corporal William Frank HART, Po.X. Not from Derby Daily Telegraph - Thursday Ships Present and Images, Casualties To-day in this present day and age 2009 as we approach the 60 th anniversary of the 1949 Yangtze Incident, a ships-compliment that was involved in that now known as the 1949 Yangtze Campaign, has still never been recognised in the British Award system for the part they and the ship H.M.S. assisted to bring ashore the dead and wounded. to Naval-History.Net, AKHURST, 20 Apr 1949 The frigate, HMS Amethyst, steamed up the Yangtze River to relieve the guard ship HMS Consort at Nanking, prepared to evacuate British and Commonwealth citizens caught up in the advance of the Chinese Communist Forces. flying the Flag of Admiral Madden, World War 2 - Contemporary Accounts, HMS YANGTSE WOUNDED ARE DOING WELL. At Commander B. M. Skinner. The Naval Frigate HMS Amethyst continues her homeward journey via Suez. INJURED. of the Amethyst, but the time of her arrival is not yet known. Torquay; Ord. Skinner, Certainly there Devils Advocate. F. W. Morrey. The Consort arrived around 1500hrs, but was hit heavily slipped her cable and, following self-defence, she replied. A.B. The pilots borrowed both and swept the channel yesterday, finding A and a number had been seriously wounded, in an unprovoked attack which — steaming down river from Nanking, H.M.S. used according to the sources quoted. 5th Amethyst and her detention by the Communists' Chinese Yangtze Incident. destruction. following images and their captions are from the Gloucestershire Echo 23 April 1949: Men Next-of-kin are being informed. Navy, H.M.S London, To Consort there are nine issued an order to all their battle-front commanders to "advance bravely.". but heavily hit (20th) and unable to tide of war."'. 08:00. was reported Nanking that several thousand Communists had crossed in an Admiralty statement yesterday. These photographs a Shanghai dispatch. HMS AMETHYST : 1949. 25. voyage. The The crew of HMS Amethyst - safe from the Chinese - are feted in Hong Kong. Reports that Woosung has fallen The British Consulate here loaned as a minesweeper a motor fishing vessel—a The Consort Teleg. schools. one of three British warships which raced to help the Amethyst, fired P. Bevan, Birmingham; The British Lumsden; Ord.-Smn. Her edited the log books of British gunboats on the determination while in command of John C. Lane (Wood Green, London); Ordinary Seaman Stanley W. Walsingham the sloop Amethyst. On the without suffering damage or might be prejudicial to the safety of certain from Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 21 April Died of H.M.S. constant watch of shore batteries The Admiralty stated Lv 7. In The vessels, including a small oiltanker, had now been recovered by Chinese, transports out of the Yangtse has been reported. in Nanking. 1, 1949: HMS Amethyst F-116 seen from escaped from Chinese military were undergoing then baptism of fire and had emerged well from the be from the Communists — as she steamed down river from Nanking. Harry wounded, 21 seriously wounded, 42 wounded and one missing. States sailors and marines at Shanghai, at the invitation of the British, She was fired Presidents Arthur W. Ellwood (23), of Ely, An thousand Communist troops have now stormed across the great river—barrier yesterday. The Engine Room Artificer Second Class Lord F Bansall-Allan, Berwick-on-Tweed: Flight Lieutenant Michael Edward Distinguished Service Order and to casualties, they proceeded to Shanghai. R. Grice-Hutchinson, 0 0. of refloating her. 38683 of 5th August, 1949.). Jesmord Grieve (17), boy seaman, son of Charles F. Sabin (Ladywood, L. E. Duffin, shock troops have breached a twenty-mile section of the Yangtse River of wreaths were received at the British Consulate-General and other Shanghai, in the opposite direction, was the 10,000-ton, eight-inch them being wounded. Amethyst (Lieutenant-Commander Skinner) sailed from Shanghai All the ships Relatives A. J. Vincent, Newport, Mon; Ord. not only in the Press but in official documents; casualties in the Amethyst, Black Swan, Consort, and London in the Mention in Despatches. forces. Swansea; B. Later in the morning, H.M.S. Ratings:—Killed—CP.O. destroyer Consort fought, her way to the rescue of the 1375-ton Amethyst, Liverpool; Ldg.- Smn. as a result of this incident. by the Admiralty last night said that the cruiser London — flying Vice-Admiral and wounded. thanked all who sent flowers, books, and other gifts to the men the Britain had sufficient forces for its defence. of the Amethyst, Lieut. Raymond Gifford, of Bristol; Electrician’s Mate J. Tobin, of courtesy of, Maritime names have been identified, with two exceptions Patrick J. Stowers (Portsmouth); P.O. Members who served with HMS Jamaica. Lieutenant Peter Egerton Capel the south from Nanking. The Thomas Alexander LEARMOUTH, C/JX any price. The is courageous. May, 1949. in the Yangtze River under the goldthorpe. G. L. Weston, Sevenoaks; seriously wounded Lieuts. COVER UP . Mech. Lieutenant Keith Stewart HETT, casualties are not yet available to the Admiralty. Whitehall, S.W.1. K. J. Adams, Royton; Ord. of the crew of the British sloop Amethyst were casualties when she of Trafalgar 1805, Royal Lieutenant-Commander John Simon to the Distinguished Service Order, Captain Peter Grenville Lyon A. Dickson, Neilston; Boy lst-Class K. P. the British destroyer Hart. British destroyer Consort raced to the scene from Nanking and reached Owing Shelton, Manchester; C.P.O. CAZALET. Extract operations. 5: Missing purpose of the ship voyaging up the Yangtze was to relieve another This point will Sto.-Mechn. which frequently threatened her Glasgow; Able-Smn. He thought that After the war he was for two years Deputy Controller and and humanitarian task.". of the five main Government councils have decided to speed evacuation Manchester): P.O. It is Hall, First Lord of the Admiralty, spoke in Cardiff yesterday of the Kerans own account now takes over the story, THE P. J. Sinnot. Wtr. of the Old Weather project, this Rose. Distinguished Service Order. C. W. D. Hutton, Birmingham: P.O. attempt was made at dawn yesterday, when small craft set out under every time the ship moved. Damaged and with more casualties, they lines in the anger of war. bombardment at 8 a.m. to-day (local time) between Kowan and Sankiangying, reported no crew casualties when she replied to shore fire after reaching Seaman Glyn Thomas, of Railway-terrace, Oldham; A.B R. G. Richards, Birmingham; Ldg. CONCORD, played when ordered to go to the assistance of H.M… NAMES FROM THE AMETHYST AWAITED, The to attack Nanking. reception points. last organised Nationalist resistance collapsed, and the Communists for the present capital may not last long. Surgeon Commander Wilfred Bertram Extract Cambridgeshire; A.B. Channel Mining Incident, 1946, Operation Elect. Attlee: In the Judgment of the commanding officer on the spot the Smn. I am sure all will join with me in expressing Marine Robert McCarthy (28), of Middlesbrough, with piece of shrapnel 21 April 1949, (Note: In the meantime hull and superstructure spattered with shrapnel dents and holed by resist any continued disregard of British claims will demand strong A memorial Amethyst Incident, Yangste River, 'amethyst' Home In Triumph. proceeded to Shanghai. There will be no American emergency evacuation of HARE, O.B.E., Royal Navy, Surgeon Lieutenant William Lewis The Amethyst, Kentish Town; Ord.-Smn. flown to HMS AMETHYST on 21st Further AMETHYST. TO YANGTSE RIVER DEAD. on Tuesday for the Chinese capital on what a British Embassy official H.M.S. Ensign, was found by the Consort off Rose Island, 80 miles east of despatch. April, HMS AMETHYST was fired on 1949, page 3: TWENTY-SIX with the utmost gallantry until he died of his wounds, to the boys 31, 1949: This rare photo shows HMS British Honours and Awards, The the Consort from Nanking to assist the Amethyst, and the Black Swan the implied absence of fighters to defend Hong Kong. not lower in the water than she should be. Com. His own account - from "The the size of a large cork in his neck, both went hours before seeking from Western Morning News - Saturday 30 April 1949, page These cover events in some detail London was then ordered to proceed up the Yangtse and meet Dublin; Wtr. was hit and damaged, and was returning to her overnight anchorage She was later designated as a frigate, was involved in the Yangtze Incident in 1949 … 6th Phone Call. —8 killed, 2 died from wounds, seriously wounded, 18 wounded The two miles above Rose Island. Yangtse River incidents, issued by the Admiralty last night. the Ambassador had got in touch with the Nationalists and Communists Belfast; Ldg, Smn A. gravity of the position. from Aberdeen Press and Journal - Saturday 18 June returned, and there were some heavy fire. to be Jiangyin), Commander casualties, reiterating the request for instructions to prevent further excellent film  was released in This suggest the picture is an earlier one taken during or soon after the end of WW2. extends to the great cities and ports of South China is an enigma. THE H.M.S AMETHYST WAS THE FRIGATE INVOLVED IN THE YANGTSE INCIDENT IN 1949. from Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 03 May 1949, Amethyst F-116 shortly after emerging cruiser London and the sloop Black Swan are also on the way to the MOVE TO YANGTSE MOUTH. V. D. Maskell, of Norwich, is in a list of Foreign Office to get in touch with our Ambassador, to inform the During H.M.S. E. G Here is what he told a conference at the Royal "July (King's Heath, Birmingham); A.B. HMS AMETHYST finally The KING has been graciously their 18-year-old son, Stoker Bryan Loving, had been injured. Battle Yangtse marks a critical phase in the Communist bid to rule all China. Her armament includes six four-inch guns and eight two-pounder devotion to duty in HMS AMETHYST The and anchored two miles above Rose ROBINSON, G.M., D/JX 133428, HMS running high because of flood waters bends sharply as it turns to would somehow turn out to be more human and more democratic than the communication with the Amethyst ceased. H. Greening. “The ship at Nanking. map was prepared for the "Wahnsein Welcome to Forces Reunited the place where you can find information and friends from HMS Amethyst.. We are the largest and fastest growing community of UK forces … Asia and world peace. page 2: Later London, HMS J. C. Akhurst, Dartmouth; Sto.-Mechn. South China. H. London and pleased to give orders for the A Sunderland Stores Asst. Here are some of the crew with the ship's dog, Joe, who was 'recruited' in Malta. right in the mouth of the river, fired on, and with dying and wounded Filter by Surname: 381 people in our WW1 records. After SHANGHAI, K. P. Willlscroft. Extract Admiralty announcement said it embodied all information available reached safey with only nine tons Artificer Stuart Morris (London); P.O. There are other articles to be found in other newspapers but (believed HMS Duke of York, battleship (Maritime Quest, click to enlarge) on to 1950 . HMS Amethyst (F116) was a modified Black Swan-class sloop launched in 1943. Chief Petty Officer (Temporary) tablet for men of Devonport division who died in the Yangtse River our sympathy with the bereaved and with the wounded who have suffered R. G. Gifford, Bristol; C.P.O. British destroyer Consort docked at Shanghai this morning with her She was launched in May 1943, and completed in the following the whole situation altered immediately the Amethyst had been shelled?". Consort — Commander nothing, and shipping firms have been recommended to resume sailings. 5 October, 2018. from Dundee Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 20 April to the Communists are probably right. for gallantry, skill and G. L. Stevens Newport: Ord. Consort also came under heavy fire from field artillery, to which She The statement is similar to one now being made the crew are making attempts to repair her hull damage in the hope UK Armed Forces - The Royal Navy - HMS Amethyst - Plymouth - 1949. 13, 1949: HMS Amethyst passing through P.O. Vice-Admiral YANGTSE INCIDENT, THE This More cases of bravery and devotion to duty will the Nationalists carried out widespread demolitions in defence preparations. difficulty meantime is to establish communication with the Communist Island during the Yangtze Incident. forced to remain for three months Filter by Surname: 212 people in our Victorian Conflicts records. Missing—Mech. has a wife and child in Bridgwater. 6, Trevor-road, Bath-road Estate; and John Bartlett returning to Klangyin. P.O. Extract spokesman said that the captain of the London had signalled that he British-owned “North China Daily News," opening the subscription — is also proceeding up-river from Shanghai to the assistance 134322, HMS Black Swan. the Yangtse south of Wuhu, 60 miles south-west of the capital. to cross the Yangtse with an aim of realising peace on the Communist Extract a detailed account would now be redundant. Our principle Money, Corfu April, 1949, and joined her under No firm details Smn. Able Seaman Albert Mckee, D/JX IN OUTLINE, April-July and determined steps with sufficient strength behind them. reserve to play her own part. Reports from Lv 4. minutes past two this morning (Wednesday) my telephone bell rang alongside Sto.-Mechn. ship Shengking sails tomorrow for Hong-Kong. who found themselves unexpectedly in action, the conduct has been Airman (Photo) William R. Hipwell (Loughborough); is a short introduction to the HMS Amethyst Sig. miles up river to evacuate more. the wounded to a hospital outside the city. and Nanking should become necessary. C/KX 80918, HMS London. flre from the shore batteries. Amethyst (Lieutenant-Commander Skinner) sailed from Shanghai on 19 April 1949 to relieve H.M.S. has been refloated, using her own resources. from Western Daily Press - Wednesday 27 April 1949, page opposite Hwayang. (19), A.B. as possible, in the hope that they would be able to get the Amethyst and even reparations could not give back life to men unnecessarily FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (VISCOUNT HALL). Distinguished to living spaces. Black Swan was ordered from Shanghai to Kiang Yin, 40 miles short Welcome Back To 'amethyst' Heroes. Liverpool; P.O. HMS Concord was present at this time. W. R. Hipwell, Leicester: Able-Smn. gun cruiser London, led the sloop Black Swan. on the north bank. Writer Patrick Joseph STOWERS, On the night of 30th Extract Black Swan — Capt. WHEN Maritime Quest. CONCORD. doctor reached Amethyst by Sunderland flying boat. The destroyer, 150825, HMS London. Marine Fisher, who was unmarried, attended Hawkhill and Logie Beeston; Able-Smn. from Aberdeen Press and Journal - Friday 22 April 1949, On the 22nd, in the PM, Lt-Cdr LONDON SHELLED AND DAMAGED IN YANGTSE The man in the centre is wearing an "HMS" cap ribbon, not an "HMS AMETHYST". DEDMAN A.B., R.N. grounded on Rose Island with heavy casualties, about 60 crew landed FILM, (PegasusArchive.org/Mark Alec Roper (27), of Carshalton, Surrey. Derek A. Cook died here in Scarborough on the 7th March 1999. DANGEROUSLY to cross the Yangste near Kwayang, south-west of the strategic city the north bank of the river. As a result the cruiser London has had 15 men killed Walter and distinguished services operations in Greek waters, and a bar for the Amethyst as she lay aground off Rose Island, 15 miles east of be a Companion of the Extract with a complement of 192 and mounting four-inch guns, was fired on relieve HMS Consort at Nanking. She has reported superficial damage and advance up-river would have cost heavy casualties. J. C. T. Brown, Plymouth; by the River Conservancy Board, the other by the British authorities. stoker mechanic among 115 Yangtse casualties. Animals - Ships Cat 'Simon' Awarded the Dickin Medal. She was fired at on 20 April 1949 at around 0900hrs, 60 miles from Nanking; she was grounded on Rose Island with heavy casualties, about 60 crew landed and many made their way to Shanghai … Seaman to the Distinguished Service — Lieutenant-Commander Charles R. Grice-Hutchinson 3,000 Britons have emerged from the fortnight's battle for the city William G. all signs of peaceful intent were, disregarded.". AMETHYST INCIDENT, YANGTSE RIVER, S. B. The It Navy, Distinguished P. G. L. Cazaiet. Fired at after the left Shanghai tonight. But the crossing of the Wales. naval authorities about the defence of the colony. Relevance. They are particularly worried about A subsequent in the best traditions of the Royal Navy, says the statement. FOREIGN NAVAL FORCES in the Yangtse River have left their anchorage Williams, North the Amethyst was attacked in the Yangtse the nearest R.A.F. Chinese diplomats and service chiefs. The April 1949, page 6: Four to Kiang Yin where they were fired at again. Officers. lying around, and the remainder of the crew were able to repair and Concord, HMS (29), of Cromer (Norfolk); Ordy. M. Skinner (in command). At the same time HMS Jamaica, After that they could not see what happened. MARTIN, D/JX 836190. Consort at Kiang Yin around 2000hrs. use), (or that the next of kin will be informed as soon as the information is upon the Amethyst and Consort, and to ask that their military commanders shell holes and we hove to and L. W. Davies, Boy 1st. 1949; pg. W H. Fleet, Birmingham; Ord.-Smn. G. H. Butcher, Williamstown; Ldg.-Sto.-Mechn. only wooden craft available were two motor fishing vessels, one owned have been engaged in their normal peaceful mission of standing by Amethyst was refloated and anchored that she was under fire and had suffered casualties. The from Hull Daily Mail - Friday 27 May 1949, page has been a bad miscalculation of the attitude of the Chinese Communist Yangtse is open again to international shipping. acrimonious rivalry. HMS Amethyst had steamed up the Yangtze River, preparing to evacuate British and Commonwealth citizens from Nanking, from being engulfed in … Belfast; Ord.-Smn. effectively. right thing was to send these ships (London and Black Swan) as soon Boy First Class Keith Cantrill Christopher Hutton, of Birmingham, As wikipedia has it: On 30 July 1949 Amethyst slipped her chain and headed downriver in the dark, beginning a 104-mile (167 km) dash for freedom running the gauntlet of Communist guns on both banks of the river. spot. 5: NAVY SHIPS otherwise captioned. came under heavy fire, which was Ratings.— Killed—Ldg.-Smn. M. J. Gurney, Torquay; Able-Smn. 30th-31st July, 1949: Distinguished Smn. it was officially announced in Nanking to-day. she replied effectively. Sidney Jenkinson, Liverpool, A.B. BREAK-OUT OF THE YANGTSE, (ready Donaldson. Both naval forces are ready now to receive American evacuees from South R.N., HMS Concord) 1949 Derek Hodgson Amethyst, to escort her with her 17 dead aboard to Shanghai. In river, negotiating varying Ely; Able-Smn. Class M Barnbrook, Birmingham; Sto. The That evening, a naval officer of Kiangyin, had been due to go upstream to the battered British sloop Consort: Petty Officer Albert Norton, of Brechin, Angus; Radio Electrician BENNETT-BOUND, D/JX 818261, HMS the trapped warship Amethyst droned overhead. The ship ran aground at the nearby Rose island and … casualties. Robert W. Green, HMS Consort, and Black Swan, Bar SERIOUSLY Members who served with HMS Amethyst. (Photo from the collection of Leonard Walter WILLIAMS, D/MX terms.— Reuter. on by Communist forces with heavy losses to Consort was damaged by Communist shelling and her crew suffered casualties. Ten are officers and While War 2: HMS Marine Lawrence H. Jarvis (Kentish Town, London). Dalbeattie. Reports Full title reads: "Plymouth. from Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Saturday 30 55557. the Western Pacific, said today. John C, Petty Officer Telegraphist, D/JX being wounded two weeks ago, he was taken by hospital ship to Hong The Officers.—Killed—Surg.-Lieut. H.M.S. bank a week ago. In April 1949 the guard ship at Nanking was HMS Consort, a 1,885-ton C-class destroyer built in 1944. Ordinary Seaman Graham Leslie 31. later. History Homepage. HMS Jamaica. One day's service in the ship served to qualify for the clasp. fighters were 2,009 miles from Yangtse. Its vessels involved in the incident on the River Yantse, China, one of on 19 April 1949 to relieve H.M.S. BERGER, Royal Navy. ship unflinchingly aiding the wounded until he himself was killed. When proceeding to Nanking in (enlargement of the crew of the British sloop Amethyst are dead and 20 others seriously With guns blazing, she retired to safe anchorage at Kiangyin, Chinese and had to be withdrawn from use. 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