While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge ...

Barnsley, Eng.: Seaforth Pen & Sword / Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2015. Pp. x, 276. Illus., map, appends., notes, biblio., index. $45.95. ISBN: 1848322240 ...

‘Hold Your Breath is a Bleak, Slow-Burn Horror Thriller About Motherhood and Paranoia. Sarah Paulson... The WandaVision Spin-Off Boasts an Enchanting Kathryn Hahn and a New Mystery. Hahn stars ...

Simon is the only cat to have been awarded the Dickin Medal He kept vermin away from the food supply after Plymouth's HMS Amethyst was bombed and the crew stranded Simon is among 75 recipients of ...

Semidocumentary about the HMS Amethyst, trapped in the Yangtse River in 1949 by the Red Chinese. Richard Todd, Akim Tamiroff. Frank: William Hartnell. Weston: Donald Houston. Tai: Keye Luke.

People view the 12-foot tall amethyst geode from Uruguay hosted at the American Museum of Natural ... [+] History in New York. Thanks to geological surveys and detailed chemical analysis ...

From the first shout of "fireball" the crew of HMS Diamond have just two minutes to react. In that time they have to work out whether the missile, travelling at more than three times the speed of ...

A Royal Navy destroyer has shot down a missile fired by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen. HMS Diamond was defending a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday when her Sea Viper missile ...

Moscow's defence ministry said a patrol ship fired warning shots and a jet dropped bombs in the path of HMS Defender as it sailed some 12 miles (19km) off Crimea's coast. The UK government ...

World-class amethyst-agate geodes from Los Catalanes, Northern Uruguay: genetic implications from fluid inclusions and stable isotopes. Mineralium Deposita , 2024; DOI: 10.1007/s00126-024-01310-2 ...

(At one time, amethyst was also considered a precious gem, but large reserves were later found in Brazil, reducing its value.) Precious gems are formed in different ways and composed of different ...

Dozens of loved ones were greeted on HMS Queen Elizabeth, with a group picture being shared on X. She sailed home to HMNB Portsmouth yesterday evening (September 13), with well-wishers at The ...