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| Name | HMS Amethyst taking hits from Red Chinese shore batteries, Yangtse River, 1949 |
| Video Uploader | Video From Rick Davi |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 24-09-2016 23:57:27 |
| Video Discription | Clip from the 1957 movie “Yangtse Incident” / “Battle Hell” (113 min) The film is based upon the eponymous book 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 the film was known as “Feu sur le Yangtse” and “Vuur op de Yangtse”, both meaning "Fire on the Yangtse". On 19 April 1949, the Royal Navy frigate HMS Amethyst sails up the Yangtse 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. Fifty-four of her crew are dead, dying or seriously wounded while others deteriorate from the tropical heat and the lack of essential medicines. The local Communist official Colonel Peng (played by Akim Tamiroff) is adamant: either accept responsibility for the entire incident, or the Amethyst will remain his prisoner. After an attempt by HMS Consort to tow Amethyst off the mud bank fails, Lieutenant Commander John Kerans (played by Richard Todd) decides to risk steaming down the Yangtze at night without a pilot or suitable charts. After some subtle alterations to the ship's outline to try to disguise her, Amethyst slips her cable and headed downriver in the dark following a local merchant ship, which Amethyst uses to show the way through the shoals and distract the PLA. Having finally broken through the boom at the mouth of the river, she sends a signal to HMS Concord: "Have rejoined the fleet south of Woosung ... No major damage... No casualties....God save the King." hc9tOWtmjf4 |
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| Tags | Michael Anderson | Herbert Wilcox | Eric Ambler | Richard Todd | William Hartnell | Akim Tamiroff | Keye Luke | Sophie Stewart | Robert Urquhart | Barry Foster | Sam Kydd | Kenneth Cope | Ian Bannen | Bernard Cribbins | Wilcox-Neagle | British Lion Films | Distributors Corporation of America (US) | British Navy | Amethyst | Consort | China | Nanking | People’s Liberation Army | communists |
