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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| AMETHYST |
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GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1943 |
07/05/1943 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Naval Sloop
| Steel Steam Turbine |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Govan |
Linthouse |
594 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| / / 1578 disp |
299ft 6in |
37ft 6in |
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11ft 0in |
| Engine builder |
, |
| Engine detail |
| 2 x Steam turbines driving twin shafts 4300shp 20kn, 2-screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Royal Navy |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
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| Vessel history |
Modified Black Swan class (U.16), converted to frigate (F.116)
2/11/1943 commissioned
20/4/1949 fired on by Chinese forces on River Yangtze (Shanghai for Nanking) - the "Yangtze Incident" |
| Remarks |
| Just before demolition Amethyst was brought out of storage to play herself in the 1957 film "Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst". As her engines were no longer operational, her sister ship MAGPIE (J I Thornycroft, 1943), was used for shots of the ship moving. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1957 |
Broken Up |
| Disposal Detail |
| Broken up at Plymouth |
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AMETHYST
Image courtesy of : Royal Navy (PD)
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