Lt Cdr J S Kerans DSO RN wrote his account of the Yangtze Incident in 1950 (NR38/1). He began: “Much has already been written concerning HMS Amethyst and her detention by the Communists’ People’s Liberation Army in the Yangtse Kiang, not only in the Press but in official documents; a detailed account would now be redundant. Political considerations debar certain details and, in addition, publication of other matter might be prejudicial to the safety of certain people still in Communist-occupied China.” After 70 years, the distance of time enables the author here to shine a sharper light on eve…
