Cats have been brought on ships for various purposes throughout history, the most common one being to catch mice and rats. One such heroic cat was Simon, who famously guarded his soldiers aboard the ...

Cats have been clawing their way into wartime history for a long time. Take for example Crimean Tom, sometimes called Sevastopol Tom. In a Russian port town in 1854, he saved invading French and ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

MORE than 70 former shipmates of the HMS Amethyst met the Lord Mayor of Coventry during a reunion in the city.... MORE than 70 former shipmates of the HMS Amethyst met the Lord Mayor of Coventry ...

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