Which ship escaped under the cover of darknes in July 1949 along the flooded Yangtse river?
"escaped under cover of darkness. For the 1957 film ""Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst"", ""Amethyst"" was brought out of storage to play herself. As her engines were no longer operational, her sister ship, , was used for shots of the ship moving. ""Amethyst"" was scrapped shortly after the filming was finished. HMS Amethyst (F116) 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 25 March 1942, launched on 7 May 1943 and commissioned on 2 November 1943, with the pennant number"
"Amethyst Incident The ""Amethyst"" Incident, also known as the Yangtze Incident, was a historic event which involved the Royal Navy ship HMS ""Amethyst"" on the Yangtze River for three months during the Chinese Civil War in the summer of 1949. On 20 April 1949, HMS ""Amethyst"", commanded by Lieutenant Commander Bernard Skinner, was on her way from Shanghai to Nanking to replace , which was standing as guard ship for the British Embassy there during the Chinese Civil War between the nationalist Kuomintang led Republic of China and the Communist Party led People's Republic of China. According to the Royal"
"state had wrongly invaded Chinese national waters and had fired upon the PLA first. Because the communists (and later the People's Republic of China) did not acknowledge any treaties between the previous Chinese government and the British, they insisted that it was illegal for ""Amethyst"" to cruise in the Yangtze river. On 30 July 1949 ""Amethyst"" slipped her chain and headed downriver in the dark, beginning a dash for freedom running the gauntlet of guns on both banks of the river. She followed the passenger ship ""Kiang Ling Liberation"" in the hope that the observers ashore would be confused and"
"le Yangtse"" (French) and ""Vuur op de Yangtse"" (Flemish/Dutch), both meaning """"Fire on the Yangtse"""". The film was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. On 19 April 1949, the Royal Navy sloop HMS ""Amethyst"" sails up the Yangtze River on her way to Nanking, the Chinese capital, to deliver supplies to the British Embassy. Suddenly, without warning, People's Liberation Army (PLA) shore batteries open fire and after a heavy engagement, ""Amethyst"" lies grounded in the mud and badly damaged. attempts to tow ""Amethyst"" off the mud bank, but is herself hit several times and has to depart. A further"
"Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957) is a British war film that tells the story of the British sloop caught up in the Chinese Civil War and involved in the 1949 Yangtze Incident. It was based upon the book written by Lawrence Earl. The film was known in the US by the alternative titles Battle Hell, ""Escape of the Amethyst"", ""Their Greatest Glory"" and ""Yangtze Incident"". Non-English language titles include the direct German translation of ""Yangtse-Zwischenfall"", and ""Commando sur le Yang-Tse"" in France. In Belgium it was known as ""Feu sur"
"Principal, had admitted her to Somerville, that had first drawn her to the Quakers. The Bryans were married in Chengdu after the Quaker custom and stayed with Margery Fry on their first return as a couple from China. As Chinese Secretary, he helped to resolve the Yangtse Incident of April 1949, when the British warship HMS ""Amethyst"" was caught off-guard on Yangtze River behind the rapidly advancing lines of the People's Liberation Army. While his assistant, Edward Youde, later to serve as Governor of Hong Kong, achieved popular recognition for cycling behind those lines to make contact with the ""Amethyst"","
"and defected to the enemy. Not wanting the remaining five boats to be destroyed, the commander of the ROCN RDF Rear Admiral Ye Yuhe (叶裕和) led the remnant of the defected force to the enemy on November 30, 1949. PLAN renamed the boat to Yangtze, and the armament was subsequently changed to four 40 mm and four 20 mm guns. The gunboat remained in PLAN's service until 1982 when it finally retired. The importance of Yangtze in the history of PLAN is apparent when one considers that in February 1952, Mao Zedong was on board for four days and three"
"Sinking of Dongfang zhi Xing MV ""Dongfang zhi Xing"" (; translated as ""Oriental Star"" or ""Eastern Star"") was a river cruise ship that operated in the Three Gorges region of inland China. On 1 June 2015, the ship was traveling on the Yangtze River in Jianli, Hubei Province with 454 people on board when it capsized in a severe thunderstorm. On 13 June, 442 deaths were confirmed, with 12 rescued. It is the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in China's history, and the worst maritime disaster (including wartime disasters) since the steamer sank in 1949, killing more than 1,500. Around 9:28"
"Yangtze Patrol The Yangtze Patrol, also known as the Yangtze River Patrol Force, Yangtze River Patrol, YangPat and ComYangPat was a prolonged naval operation from 1854–1949 to protect American interests in the Yangtze River's treaty ports. The Yangtze Patrol also patrolled the coastal waters of China where they protected U.S. citizens, their property, and Christian missionaries. The Yangtze River is the longest river in China and it plays an important commercial role, with ocean-bound vessels proceeding as far upstream as the city of Wuhan. This squadron-sized unit cruised the waters of the Yangtze from Shanghai on the Pacific Ocean into"
"Yangtze River Crossing Campaign The Yangtze River Crossing Campaign () was a military campaign launched by the People's Liberation Army to cross the Yangtze River and capture Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist government, in the final stage of the Chinese Civil War. The campaign began at night on 20 April, and lasted until 2 June 1949, concluding after the fall of Nanjing and Shanghai to the Communist forces. Between the end of 1948 and the beginning of 1949, the Nationalist government suffered consecutive defeats against the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the Liaoshen Campaign, the Huaihai Campaign and"
"of the upstream journey. In 1929 alone, of 67 Yangtze steamers three were totally destroyed by the rapids with 47 casualties; a thousand junk sailors perished every year. The boat left Wusong on October 1, passing Hankou (the last ""western"" city on the route) on October 11. At Yichang Settle disembarked, leaving the boat and its crew to prepare for forcing the rapids, and himself took a reconnaissance trip to Chongqing on a British steamer. He returned just as the water level fell below optimum, and immediately ordered departure. Balancing engine thrust, steering, and pulling the boat by cables, and"
"a march through the city. The next day ""Belfast"" took charge of a silver ship's bell, a gift of the people of Belfast. She sailed for Hong Kong on 23 October to join the Royal Navy's Far East Station, arriving in late December. By 1949, the political situation in China was precarious, with the Chinese Civil War moving towards its conclusion. As flagship of the 5th Cruiser Squadron, ""Belfast"" was the Far Eastern Station's headquarters ship during the April 1949 ""Amethyst"" Incident, in which a British sloop, , was trapped in the Yangtze River by the communist People's Liberation Army."
"ship (USS ""Rocky Mount""), two light cruisers, four destroyers, twelve destroyer escorts, and many PT boats and minesweepers along with a British naval contingent of three light cruisers, six destroyers, six destroyer escorts, and some minesweepers. In November the new heavy cruiser joined the unit. When the Chinese Civil War finally reached the Yangtze Valley, in 1949, the U.S. Navy permanently ceased operations on the Yangtze River and officially disbanded the Yangtze Patrol. Yangtze Patrol The Yangtze Patrol, also known as the Yangtze River Patrol Force, Yangtze River Patrol, YangPat and ComYangPat was a prolonged naval operation from 1854–1949 to"
"1941. The former steamers were either sabotaged or pressed into Japanese or Chinese service. Probably the most curious incident involved in 1949 during the Chinese Civil War between Kuomintang and People's Liberation Army forces; and led to the award of the Dickin Medal to the ship's cat Simon. Tens of millions of people live in the floodplain of the Yangtze valley, an area that naturally floods every summer and is habitable only because it is protected by river dikes. The floods large enough to overflow the dikes have caused great distress to those who live and farm there. Floods of"
"river ferry sank in 1947, drowning 400 people. Mao and the Chinese Communist Party journeyed upriver by steamer in 1959 to Lushan to the Lushan Conference to discuss the Great Leap Forward. However, little is known in the west about this period, as China became a closed country. Many retired North American steamers were sent to Japan or Taiwan for scrapping. Some were pressed into mainland china service. By the 1970s China embarked on its own ship and engine building programs, and steamers have since been replaced by diesel tugs, freighters and ferry boats. Steamboats on the Yangtze River After"
"take advantage of her. But she freed herself by plunging into the river whereupon a big storm came and sank the boat. After the storm had thus settled, people saw a beautiful dolphin swimming – the incarnation of the girl – which became known as the ‘Goddess of the Yangtze.’ The baiji, in the region of Yangtze, is regarded as a symbol of peace and prosperity. In the 1950s, the population was estimated at 6,000 animals, but declined rapidly over the subsequent five decades. Only a few hundred were left by 1970. Then the number dropped down to 400 by"
"25 February 1949 her crew defected to the Communists with the ship. Her name in Chinese remained unchanged but the Communists romanised the name differently, as ""Tchoung King"". In March 1949 she was sunk in Taku harbour by Nationalist aircraft. She was later salvaged with Russian assistance but then stripped bare as ""repayment"". The empty hulk spent the rest of her life as an accommodation and warehouse ship, being subsequently renamed ""Yellow River (Huang He)"" in 1959, when it was transferred to Shanghai on 27 October of that year to be converted to a salvage ship at a planned budget"
"refitted for further service in early 1946 to allow her to serve in the postwar fleet. Following the refit she sailed for the far east in 1946 and served there for the next three years on the China Station. In the spring of 1949 the frigate became trapped by advancing Communist Chinese forces up the Yangtze River. ""London"" sailed up the river as a show of strength in an attempt to help free the frigate. The Communist forces were not intimidated and took the cruiser under fire. ""London"" returned fire with her 8-inch and 4-inch guns, firing several hundred rounds,"
"against the Japanese forces. The ship was on active duties as far as Australia and the Philippine Islands. At the end of hostilities in 1945 ""Black Swan"" followed the cruiser into Shanghai and were the first Royal Navy warships to liberate Japanese concentration camps containing British and Empire prisoners. In 1949 she took part in the Yangtze Incident when she, with others, went to aid of . ""Black Swan"" suffered 12 men wounded and severe damage to her superstructure in a fierce engagement with Chinese batteries and fell back. The failed relief effort cost 46 killed and 64 injured. ""Black"
"Yangzhou was the lower river's principal port for much of the Qing Dynasty, directing Liangjiang's important salt monopoly and connecting the Yangtze with the Grand Canal to Beijing. (That connection also made it one of the ""Yellow"" River's principal ports between the floods of 1344 and the 1850s, during which time the Yellow River ran well south of Shandong and discharged into the ocean only a few hundred kilometres away from the mouth of the Yangtze.) By 1800, English cartographers such as Aaron Arrowsmith had adopted the French style of the name as Yang-tse or Yang-tse Kiang. The British diplomat"
"Zhong’anlun Monument Zhong'anlun Monument () is a memorial monument dedicated to the victims of the Yangtze ferry disaster that occurred in October 1945, during the Chinese Civil War. Opened in October 1987, it is located in the Taixing Park on the north side of Taixing City in Taizhou, Jiangsu province. On 15 October 1945, about one thousand people boarded the ferry ""Zhong'anlun"" (中安轮) for a crossing of the Yangtze River from Wujin County to Taixing City, on orders that came from the Communist Party. The ferry sank about 2 km south of Taixing, resulting in the deaths of 800 people."
"Baiji The baiji (, ""Lipotes vexillifer"", ""Lipotes"" meaning ""left behind"", ""vexillifer"" ""flag bearer"") is a functionally extinct species of freshwater dolphin formerly found only in the Yangtze River in China. Nicknamed ""Goddess of the Yangtze"" () in China, the dolphin is also called Chinese river dolphin, Yangtze River dolphin, whitefin dolphin and Yangtze dolphin. It was regarded as the goddess of protection by local fishermen and boatmen in China (Zhou, 1991). It is not to be confused with the Chinese white dolphin or the finless porpoise. The baiji population declined drastically in decades as China industrialized and made heavy use"
"""The Crossing"", a 2014 film directed by John Woo, is about the sinking of ""Taiping"". Taiping (steamer) Taiping was a Chinese steamer that sank after a collision with another vessel while en route from mainland China to Taiwan on 27 January 1949, killing over 1,500 people. ""Taiping"" was packed to nearly twice her rated capacity, carrying over 1,000 refugees fleeing advancing Chinese Communist forces during the Chinese Civil War, when she departed Shanghai, China, on 26 January 1949, bound for Keelung, Taiwan. Some estimates put the number of passengers on board at over 1,500, although the ship was only rated"
"Wuhan. As a result, numerous companies and enterprises and large numbers of people had to withdraw from Wuhan to the west of Hubei and Sichuan. The KMT navy undertook the responsibility of defending the Yangtze River on patrol and covering the withdrawal. On October 24, while overseeing the waters of the Yangtze River near the town of Jinkou (Jiangxia District in Wuhan) in Wuchang, the KMT [[gunboat]] ""[[Chinese gunboat Chung Shan|Zhongshan]]"" came up against six Japanese aircraft. Though two were eventually shot down, the ""Zhongshan"" sank with 25 casualties. Raised from the bottom of the Yangtze River in 1997, and"
"to transport troops along stretches of the river Yangtze. On August 27, Sen attempted to board large numbers of his soldiers onto the China Navigation Company steamer ""Wanhsien"", which was anchored at the city of that name, now called Wanzhou. The captain of nearby gunboat HMS ""Cockchafer"" went aboard and persuaded the Chinese officers involved to disembark with their troops. On 29 August, Chinese troops attempted to board the steamer ""Wanliu"" at Yunyang, upon which the crew of the ship attempted to take avoiding action so as to proceed upstream to the HMS ""Cockchafer"". In the confusion as the ship"
"24, while overseeing the waters of the Yangtze River near the town of Jinkou (Jiangxia District in Wuhan) in Wuchang, the KMT gunboat ""Zhongshan"" came up against six Japanese aircraft. Though two were eventually shot down, the ""Zhongshan"" sank with 25 casualties. Raised from the bottom of the Yangtze River in 1997, and restored at a local shipyard, the ""Zhongshan"" has been moved to a purpose-built museum in Wuhan's suburban Jiangxia District, which opened on September 26, 2011. As a key center on the Yangtze, Wuhan was an important base for Japanese operations in China. On 18 December 1944, Wuhan"
"the wartime capital at Chungking, thousands of journeys were made by steamer. Whole factories, libraries, and households were picked up and moved up the perilous river. Even the National Palace Art Collection, the storied treasure of the Chinese Emperors, was boxed and moved inland. Junks, carts, and sampans were pressed into service, and cargoes kedged through the Three Gorge Rapids, with ropes and gangs of men. In 1939 the Japanese put further restrictions on foreign shipping on the lower Yangtze, trying to undo the near British Monopoly. The Europeans were forced to leave the Yangtze River with the Japanese takeover"
"The Spring River Flows East The Spring River Flows East, also translated as The Tears of Yangtze, is a 1947 epic Chinese film written and directed by Cai Chusheng and Zheng Junli and produced by the Kunlun Film Company. It is considered one of the most influential and extraordinary Chinese films ever made, and China's equivalent of the ""Gone with the Wind"". The Hong Kong Film Awards ranked it in its list of greatest Chinese-language films ever made at number 27. It ran continuously in theatres for three months, and attracted 712,874 viewers during the period, setting a Chinese record."
"Yangtze against bands of warlord soldiers and outlaws. The warship engaged in continuous patrol operations between Ichang and Chungking throughout 1923, supplying armed guards to merchant ships, and protecting Americans at Chungking while that city was under siege by a warlord army. The British Royal Navy had a series of Insect-class gunboats which patrolled between Chungking and Shanghai. Cruisers and destroyers and Fly-class gunboats also patrolled. The most infamous incident was when ""Panay"" and in 1937, were dive-bombed by Japanese aeroplanes during the notorious Nanking Massacre. The Westerners were forced to leave the Yangtze River with the Japanese takeover in"
"largely based on the events of the Yangtze incident. Richard Todd starred as Kerans in the 1957 film ""Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst"" (in the US most commonly released as ""Battle Hell"", but also as ""Escape of the Amethyst"" and ""Their Greatest Glory""). For the film, ""Amethyst"" was brought out of storage to play herself. As her engines were no longer operational, her sister ship, , was used for shots of the ship moving. Amethyst Incident The ""Amethyst"" Incident, also known as the Yangtze Incident, was a historic event which involved the Royal Navy ship HMS ""Amethyst"" on"
"number of explosions eventually proved that HTP was not a suitable propellant for submarines or torpedoes. In 1948 he was appointed flag lieutenant to the C-in-C Far East Fleet and was on the fringes of the famous escape of the frigate Amethyst from under the guns of the Chinese Communists on the Yangtse river. This unfortunate entanglement resulted in damage and casualties to four naval ships before Amethyst made her exit. Because she had destroyed all her secret radio codes against capture, Scott’s contribution was to devise and signal to Amethyst a "" one-time pad"" encryption system based on her"
"Sydney. She was sold in 1947 and was renamed ""Pearl River"" in 1948 based at Shanghai. She was renamed ""Hong Shan"" in 1949 and ""Santos"" in 1950. ""Santos"" sank after hitting a mine in the Yangtze River on 19 June 1950, near Woosung (Wusong) in the People's Republic of China. HMAS Orara HMAS ""Orara"" (J130) was a 1,297-ton anti-submarine and depot ship of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during World War II. ""Orara"" was built in 1907 by Scott of Kinghorn, Kinghorn as a cargo passenger steam ship for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company. She plied the Clarence River"
"Yangtze river, and was deployed 600 miles inland at Hankou (now part of the Wuhan conurbation). The early years of this assignment were relatively leisurely, and the ""Thistle""<nowiki>'s</nowiki> surgeon, Walter Perceval Yetts, acquired a deep admiration for Chinese civilization, which would lead him to become an important sinologist. In 1911, however, the ""Thistle"" found herself in the front line of the crisis which developed into the Chinese Revolution. She was subsequently withdrawn to Hong Kong, spending increasingly long stretches in harbour, and making occasional voyages across the South China Sea to coastal anchorages in mainland China. She now relied exclusively"