HMS Amethyst - Yangtse River Incident 紫石英号事件

(Wikipedia) On 20 April 1949, HMS Amethyst was on her way from Shanghai to Nanjing (Nanking) ...22 men had been killed and 31 wounded in all...Consort came under heavy fire, and the attempt was abandoned with 10 killed and three injured... The cruiser London and the frigate (ex-sloop and Amethyst's sister ship) Black Swan were heavily shelled as they attempted to help Amethyst and retreated with 3 killed and 14 wounded... On 30 April, the PLA demanded that Britain, the United States, and France quickly withdraw their armed forces from any parts of China... This movie is claimed to be accurate depiction of the incident and is here for educational purposes.
Mao Zedong issued a statement on this incident：
www.marxists.or...
On 6 January 1950 - Britain recognises the PRC as the government of China and posts a chargé d'affaires ad interim in Beijing (Peking).
The following data were copied from Wikipedia.
Displacement: 1,350 tons
Length: 283 ft (86 m)
Beam: 38.5 ft (11.7 m)
Propulsion: Geared turbines
two shafts
Speed: 20 knots at 4,300 hp
Complement: 192 men
Armament:
* six QF 4 in Mk XVI anti-aircraft guns
* 12 20 mm anti-aircraft guns
Notes: Pennant number U16 (later F116)
Class and type: County-class heavy cruiser
Name: HMS London
Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard, UK
Laid down: 23 February 1926
Launched: 14 September 1927
Commissioned: 31 January 1929
Fate: Sold for scrapping, 3 January 1950. Broken up from 22 January 1950
General characteristics
Displacement: 9,750 tons standard
13,315 tons full load
Length: 633 ft (193 m)
Beam: 66 ft (20 m)
Draught: 21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion: Eight Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Four shaft Parsons geared turbines
80,000 shp (60 MN)
Speed: 32 knots (59.3 km/h)
Range: 9,120 nm at 12kts
Complement: 784 officers and enlisted
Armament:
* 8 x BL 8 inch (203 mm L/50) Mk.VIII in twin mounts Mk.I*
* 4-8 x QF 4 inch (102 mm L/45) Mk.V in single mounts HA Mk.III
* 4 x QF 2 pdr (40 mm L/39) Mk.II in single mounts HA Mk.I
* 8 x QF 0.5 inch (12.7 mm L/50) Mk.III in quad mounts Mk.I
* 8 x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes in quad mounts
Aircraft carried: One Supermarine Walrus, one catapult
Notes: Pennant number 69
On 25 April 1949, Vice Admiral A. Madden, second in command of the Far Eastern Station, flew his flag in HMS London and after learning of the frigate HMS Amethyst being trapped on the Yangtse river, decided to sail upriver to render assistance in company with the frigate HMS Black Swan. Madden hoped that the mere presence of the cruiser would be enough, but it was soon clear that the Chinese Communists were not to be overawed. Within ten minutes of beginning her upriver dash, London came under fire from 105 mm and 37mm guns. She replied with her main armament and secondary 4 inch guns. The Communists scored hits on London's bridge and she turned back. London had both her forward turrets put out of action, and one of her aft turrets damaged. She had expended 132 8 inch, 449 4 inch, and over 2,000 rounds from her light AA guns. Her casualties were 13 killed and 30 wounded.

[@peterbuckley3877]

I see their problem, the ship is taking all the hits from the port side but their guns are all trained and firing starboard.

[@TrueXyrael]

There is a lot of good evidence you can research about the real events. First, the Amethyst did not open fire first. Second, the British forces caused 252 casualties. Third, the Amethyst was deployed 24 hours before the end of an ultimatum deadline, an ultimatum which the Nationalists had refused on April 19th, the day Amethyst set sail. Fourth, the Amethysts' orders were to relieve the Consort, not to evacuate personnel, its posting was to be a possible option for evacuation but shortly after the event it was determined by the Americans that an aerial evacuation would be more sound. Fifth, the British were the only nation actively sending military vessels up the river in the month of April, prior to the deadline, though multiple nations including the US had embassies in Nanjing; they could have been confused for Nationalist gunboats which were actively fighting Communists to deter crossings. In fact, on the night of the 19th, the London Times reported that intense fighting was erupting across the north bank of the Yangzi, especially north of Zhejiang. So, we can say that British arrogance was at fault for starting the incident, and Chinese stubborness made the issue last. In the end, the Communists received the most benefit out of it; a British ship would not enter Chinese territorial waters again until 1980.

[@illuminatiehmful]

The HMS Amethyst ignored the waning shots fired by the Communists.

[@TrueXyrael]

Michael Tan Yes it did. It was also already conducting an action stations drill, which no doubt included sirens and alarms that might have alarmed the Chinese.

[@TrueXyrael]

Michael Tan Not to mention the Flag Officer of the Far East Station had the HMS Concord illegally enter Chinese waters 101 days later and had another 4 destroyers on standby to attack the Woosung forts against the Admiralty's orders.

[@illuminatiehmful]

The British were arrogant and ignored the Chinese warnings. The Americans didn't bother to help because its the fault of the British Navy.

[@TrueXyrael]

Gavin MacNeish The arrogance of the Chinese... during an illegitimate foreign war which completely violated the sovereignty? You mean, British arrogance in subjugating Chinese markets through violence to force them to import Indian-made opium? Even if the Chinese had acknowledged there was an invasion, what were they to do? Few people remember that the Tibetan invasion was a proxy war between the CIA-funded Chushi Gangdruk and Communist China, and that prior to 1911 Tibet had been a Chinese province since the late 1720's. The only reason China hadn't returned Tibet into the fold was due to the fact that the country had been at war with itself for 40 years, a conflict which started because Britain undermined the Republican process in China and supported the dictator Yuan Shikai who destroyed China's best chance at being a Western-style Republic. Arrogant attitude towards Taiwan? You'll have to elaborate. Taiwan is currently the 'Republic of China' and is, in fact, China. It considers itself to be the legitimate government of China and that the mainland is occupied by a hostile government, similar North Korea and South Korea, only "Island China" and "Mainland China." Taiwan is not an independent nation, though if the DPP wins in 2016 they might try to change that. Arrogance of tourists is a bit of a reach and also touches on unfair generalizations. You could counter-argue that most tourists are arrogant. As for China's record on human rights, defending human rights does nothing to preserve the stability of the Chinese nation, unless China has altered its legitimization processes. Systemically functional violence like Tiananmen Square does preserve stability, though. I'd also like to point out that China has uplifted more people from absolute poverty in the past decade than the rest of the world combined. As for the Amethyst Incident, it must have been the product of British hubris. All signs pointed to an imminent Communist operation to cross the river and launch a major campaign into southern China. Furthermore, foreign communities in cities already captured by the Communists had been unmolested, there was no reason to believe Nanjing would be different. So, can you explain why the British then violated Chinese sovereignty sending warships through a warzone hours before a ceasefire would end when major news outlets had all reported a massive buildup of troops on the north side of the river? If it's not arrogance, then it's just ignorance.

[@theracui5705]

Gary Harvey make coffee to serve Chinese and take welfare from the state, how ironic!

[@fwcheung9306]

不见棺材不流泪，巳经不是大清，尝下炮火味

[@ericx7993]

a foreign warship with fully armed in the Yangtse River, especially from the government which supports the opposite side in the civil war, is a significant threat to people's liberation army. Furthermore, Amethyst ignored the warning shot from PLA which caused the bombardment. yea, ROC or Qing dynasty doesn't have the ball to do that, we have. the diplomatic excuses are bullshitting, will the royal army allow Chinese navy to dock in Thames river without permission? even if Chinese claim that they are "supplying diplomatic mission". the answer is simple and clear.

[@phbrinsden]

I was on the dockside in Hong Kong when she came in. I was about 6 yrs old.

[@maxhunt76]

Dee Dee pool

[@andreabartolomeo-ld3du]

Non ci credo 😂

[@1IbramGaunt]

I'd like to point out they cut a lot of this movie out here, it wasn't quite as simple as that to get those two crewmen back for example and while Amethyst did eventually get home it sure as fuck wasn't because the PLA 'granted them safe passage'

[@texan-american200]

Chicom: "Granting them safe passage." Translation: We failed to sink her, because we can't shoot fer sh*t...

[@andrewstackpool4911]

No way. The Chinese were not going to let her go. The RN said go to buggery

[@andrewstackpool4911]

The Chinese didn't even know she had gone.

[@1yipwah]

別在人家的土地上再張牙舞爪了，幾十年前還未試過，現今又想再來南海玩，省省心吧

[@schaferhundschmidt1798]

I'd like to know how a ship firing starboard broadsides has shells from the shore batteries (which are direct firing, not dropping shells in on it) that are exploding to port, and the hit s are to the port side of the ship?

[@progx8679]

Great stuff !!!! The book (Vangard to Trident) by Eric J.Grove is a fantastic read on the Royal Navy from 1946 to 1987. It details this and many other Naval matters in great detail. A MUST read for and Naval enthusiast ! Semper Fi

[@Kyleinasailing]

Excellent action scenes. No models or computers here. Action as it really is with noise, confusion and impact.

[@georgebuller1914]

I have no real problems with the Chinese in general; but some of the stupid, childish comments made on here by pseudo-communists makes me smile!

[@rutabagasteu]

More likely propagandists in China who want to alter the past by posting nonsense.

[@黎央-d1e]

rutabagasteu i just want to say your mom is bitch this is chinese propogabda

[@googleisspyingonyou598]

Yes, how dare the Chinese have a viewpoint that doesn’t align with yours.

[@MauriatOttolink]

The Royal Navy does not use a command "Open Fire". For unambiguity the command is "Shoot'".

[@jazrobean1]

tanks

[@Wormhole798]

Tanks use the command: 1. TC, "Fire" 2. Gunner, "On the way"

[@mattdavies7398]

As a postscript. The actual HMS Amethyst was used in the movie. Pyrotechnics used by the film makers actually caused more damage to the ship than it had suffered under the initial PLA barrage. Either very heavy pyrotechnics or very poor shooting from the Chinese gunners.

[@swiftdanger2033]

I always like an old flim once in a while in fact I'd rather watch an old flim

[@dogwithhat947]

SWIFT DANGER same

[@chrisholland7367]

The cruel sea Sink the Bismarck In which we serve I would highly recommend any of these, great naval stories .

[@daveperry7719]

My first Chief Radio Supervisor served in China on the shore station that was in communications with the Amethyst. He told me that when the ship was first evacuated the there was only one Radio Operator left onboard . So a chef was trained to recognise the Amethyst's call sign when sent very slowly by the shore station and was then able to get the radio operator into the w/t office to answer/read the signal traffic.

[@zennnfrom747]

英国人大概记性不太好，忘记了这段历史了吧？💀☠️👻没关系，会想起来的

[@tomjohnson9241]

The type of field gun shown in the movie, would have had no chance of keeping up traverse speed with the moving ship.

[@whispofwords2590]

What? they were field guns, and relatively small ones at that, probably 75s. They wouldve had easy time keeping with Amethyst, especially when sailing up a river at less then full speed.

[@DMPepe]

In this film Leading Seaman Frank is played by William Hartnell who would later become the first Dr Who, the oldest science fiction TV series. This year it celebrates its Fiftieth Anniversary.

[@patmurphy244]

The union jack on the rescue ship is upside down, which is a distress signal. Should have asked me!

[@chrisboorman1961]

Your correct Pat and HMS Consort pennant number was R76

[@0311ohrah]

What was the reason for Bristish warship doing deep in Chinese rivers? Was there any Chinese man-in-arms in any parts of British isles?

[@64MDW]

China couldn't drum up the wherewithal to blown its own nose. It's narcissistic, pompous attitudes have cost it dearly and caused the country to eat itself alive throughout its history.

[@luis-qq6bs]

Ese no es al que el huascar le gano?

[@王冰-k5z]

When it comes to conflicts between nations, it is laughable for a man to judge right and wrong. As a Chinese, I will not say that Britain has done wrong, but you have violated China's interests. China was not the weak qing dynasty of the opium war, because China's rivers were not designed to allow your warships to sail freely. The dignity of the nation is always built on a strong fist.

[@edmonddantes3640]

Thanks for the Wuhan flu.

[@akltom]

@@edmonddantes3640 you are welcome honey😅

[@hcrun]

The data that you copied from Wikipedia refers to another ship - and type - altogether. HMS Amethyst was a sloop - a modified Black Swan type. Definitely not a cruiser.

[@zhngming]

British Pirates

[@1IbramGaunt]

...this was a legitimate Royal Navy ship taking no offensive action with full permission to be there that was fired on by the Chinese, where do you get 'pirates' from here

[@pennryan9485]

@@1IbramGaunt No permission of the Liberty Army, please, and is it a gangster wandering over the inner river of other country??

[@1IbramGaunt]

@@pennryan9485 First, learn to speak the language properly or don't speak it at all, you don't see me trying to speak Mandarin. Second, As far as that ship was concerned they had every right to be there, in so far as that's ever possible to establish properly while sailing through a country in the midst of a civil war. Third, they were clearly alone, clearly neither aiding nor being aided by the Nationalist Chinese forces, and even after clearly marking themselves with massive extra flags hung over the sides as being from a neutral power and having taken no offensive action of any kind, the Red Chinese still fired on them, had fired on them first and went ON firing on them. So yeah, who exactly seem to be acting like the 'pirates' here to you

[@蕭瀟瀟]

@@1IbramGaunt The PLA had previously declared that no foreign warships could enter the Yangtze River and warned British warships before the shelling. The British warships did not listen to the warning and entered China's inland river without permission. This act did not respect China's sovereignty and the PLA had to shell it.

[@joto0x-yp5xx]

@1IbramGaunt4 So your first reaction when someone talks back at you is to judge their English proficiency?

[@unclesmrgol]

I don't think the Royal Navy shoots in the opposite direction from where their targets sit.

[@李梅烧烤泥轰豚]

I don’t know if there is imperialism in the British Empire.alive is not good?我不知道大英帝國是否還有帝國主義病。活著不好嗎？

[@Thunderyend]

I imagine you don't know the difference between a river gunboat and a battleship.

[@patrickgriffitt6551]

And then there was the San Pedro aka Sandpebbles. Earlier story similar result same Asian nation.

[@davidcowton1070]

Dean, Yes that is the title of the movie, starred Richard Todd and the first Dr Who, William Hartnell.

[@sarahsmart9901]

Comments on this movie clip, have in the most part, been dredged up from the bottom of the pond where the brainless creatures who make them live. In the middle of the Chinese civil war Amethyst was supplying the diplomatic missions who were trapped between the opposing sides. It was this simple act that caused the Communist forces to open fire. This is the simple bare bones fact of what happened , plus the ships final escape. to the open sea The Rock (presumably Gibralter) Spain ISIS, Russia, even Monty Python has got into the madhouse story. If only You Tube commentators could be subject to a IQ test before letting loose with their brain damaged irrelevances and distortion. A perfect example for selective breeding

[@clydewmorgan]

+Sarah Smart what right did the english have to be there? sail into a civil war and take your chances

[@daniels.7105]

Sarah Smart do you know what does it mean sovereignty ? What if I tell you that Chinese navy ships drive into the London river today and destroy London , what do you think about this then? Equality means both side respect.

[@affhb8205]

Ignorant may not be your fault , while trying to show it publicly is. There was official warning to the British ships about leaving the yongze river, which is a inner river of China by any chance you tinny brain may know, before April 20th, the deadline of ceasefire ending. If you still ignore that and claim the diplomatic mission as excuse. How stupid are you by thinking people will buy it? If a navy ship of China or any country used such excuse to sail through London on Thames river, what would be the British Amy response? Low life creature? Looking in the mirror and you won’t miss.

[@gerrynightingale9045]

"Welcome to China! America's largest de-facto Province!" (don't think so? Without us consuming China's exports...THEY WOULD STARVE!) It will likely become 'academic' any day now...one mistake from 'Rocket Boy' in the DPRK, and as we sayi n the U.S., "It's time for some ass-kicking!" and if China dares to interfere to 'save face' with their failed 'proxy-regime' in the North...we'll sail-off to Hell together! (btw...the idea of any Chinese warship being able to 'putt-putt' it's way into the Thames is LAUGHABLE!) No Chinese warship of any type would be allowed within 500miles of England, which 'size-for-size' is the most heavily protected Island to ever exist...most of which is underwater where it cannot be found nor effectively attacked. There were NO 'Official Diplomatic Recognitions' with the 'Red Chinese' in the period of the late1940's as it was uncertain 'just who is running the show there?' as far as recognized leadership was concerned...Mao insured his 'victory for the People!' by slaughtering or enslaving MILLIONS of his own people on a scale never dreamed-of by 'big-nose foreign- devils', and it was felt in the West that 'Mao may not last a year...he hasn't enough bullets to kill all his own people, and surely they'll realize it soon and get rid of him and his stooges'. The 'West' underestimated Mao...he simply ensured that rail/road/river traffic were blocked from transport to 'non-compliant' areas and they starved to death, thus bringing them 'Peace and Prosperity' from 'outside hooligans'.(the dead rarely demand any rice)

[@Jake-xe4cv]

British not English, and they were supplying diplomatic missions not participating in the civil war.

[@apmobile1843]

从二战被日军辗压，到被共军击垮 英皇海中，从游龙成了游虫

[@RampantFury925]

你似乎错过了我们像虫子一样粉碎日本的那部分，你是共产主义的笨蛋。

[@ВэйцзеЧжан-з1р]

@@RampantFury925 你的翻译很差劲，英国无论强大与否，都是一个有着原罪的邪恶国家。似乎他们从来不会为在各种殖民地中犯下的罪过所忏悔，只会洋洋得意地宣称日不落帝国。多么邪恶且恶心

[@meteor1807]

英国二战击败日本，紫石英事件碾压共匪

[@TaTa-ej3xr]

@@meteor1807 碾压完跑了？？谁被谁碾压？搞笑

[@meteor1807]

@@TaTa-ej3xr 当然是你共匪被碾压，先偷袭还伤亡两倍，哈哈哈，五毛你不承认事实吗？

[@williamrance5086]

How can the Chinese officer expect to persuade Doctor Who to surrender - preposterous when we all know the Doctor has the Tardis to overcome all adversaries?

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Empire and various Chinese governments very chummy always Opium and tea and taxes Hong Kong and Maoism.

[@robertnymand9889]

Looks like a great movie. I've never watched it.

[@63051]

Took the starch out the strutting British peacocks. They were lucky the Chinese were merciful and didn't sink them.

[@andrewstackpool4911]

One more try. In Amethyst I would have sent withdraw. My attitude to the Chinese would be as now. Where was a carrier? Again we see duplicitous Chinese lies as today. It is all the frigates vault

[@MKBlackcollar]

In the Qing Dynasty, the British easily defeated Chinese junks using gunboats. After the Communists spent decades fighting the KMT Chinese forces and the Japanese invaders, they became battle-hardened guerillas. With military training and weapons from Stalin, they became much more formidable in battle. Mao didn't want foreigners in China, it was a great source of shame that China lost the Opium Wars. Attacking and beating a Royal Navy ship would add to his legitimacy. Mao killed more Chinese than anyone else including the Japanese. Nevertheless, he was a cunning political animal.

[@c3aloha]

MKBlackcollar now the Chinese have their revenge on rest of world by releasing COVID-19.

[@RunningSwimmingMan]

Trade... Perhaps you've heard of it...? You know that thing where one person sells something, and another person buys something..? That's called Trade.

[@akltom]

trump said, that's steal🙂

[@whispofwords2590]

@@akltom ...when?

[@Jake-xe4cv]

The four did not engage at once. Amethyst ran aground nd the others tried to help. Not quite what the headline says...

[@BCA-rd4qh]

自己军舰跑他国水域，不打就怪了，还跑到两军中间，不是作死是什么😂😂😂

[@malsmith3307]

God bless the Royal Navy and Great Britain.🇬🇧⚓️

[@klao5856]

malsmith Aber jetzt der Sohn von USA

[@wawensa]

malsmith in China no god can bless anyone who is not Chinese.

[@1IbramGaunt]

@@lg4179 you do realise the Chinese shot FIRST and the British had PERMISSION TO BE THERE right? That the sole reason for them being there was to protect their own embassy when the Chinese Civil War was raging all around it, and they deliberately hung big British flags on the sides so that both sides could see they weren't part of either side

[@dayuliu848]

阎王老爷祝你海军起航抛锚

[@kin4718]

now，you little Britain can have a try again，the all Britain will dead

[@隨便取一個名字]

Without a warning, full of weapons, warships entered China but pretended to be innocent. FALSE。 I lived in Tibet for many years, and the Tibetans supported China, but you only believed in the lies of one man. This man improved the entrails of the people and offered sacrifices to Buddha

[@隨便取一個名字]

You should listen to ordinary people in Tibet.Not the slave owner, Darai.

[@Thunderyend]

The gun flashes are usually caused by lighting a match, blowing it out and then stubbing the still-hot match head against the film frame where you want the flash to appear. You blow it out just as it touches the film, in the direction you want the 'flash' to point. The inaccuracy of some of the flashes comes from the fact that film is extremely flammable. SFX artists of the time didn't want to destroy the film stock, or lose their face to a cellulose based conflagration.

[@幽谷夜枭-d2v]

强盗

[@andreabartolomeo-ld3du]

Yang tse kiang🤔🤔

[@sontungle2641]

The Black Swan and the Amethyst is look like a destroyer but it only 2 different is don't have torpedoes tube, and diameter of the main battery, I that PLA soldier fire 75mm gun to the high speed frigate???

[@dennismckown4951]

Chinese shore batteries doing a number on British ships. my bad, Chinese Civil War., but they still did a number on the British ships. funny, doesn't show ship batteries hitting the shore or the Chinese guns. were they shooting blanks?

[@Ukraine26666]

活该

[@theracui5705]

Gary Harvey is a lower class member who like to make coffee and only be so worthy on making coffees. Let's hooray for the important coffee maker hahahahah

[@sontungle2641]

and 37 and 105mm gun???

[@mgv2212]

Бриты выиграли войну?

[@rivco5008]

What ship did they use for this film?

[@harborprepper635]

They used the actual HMS Amethyst.

[@Thunderyend]

I recommend you seek treatment for your severe lack of logical thinking. You make a mockery of your country, allowing all youtube viewers to laugh at her and you.

[@Mocking69]

戦艦に秀樹感激Goodです=3

[@gerrynightingale9045]

I refuse to believe that the shore-gun emplacements I see could penetrate deck-armor on the Cruiser-class Warship...theChinese batteries seem to consist of archaic "Hotchkiss-type 3lb. Artillery' pieces that could not possibly 'fire' at 'near-zero'elevation and hope to impact the ship to any real effect...I see the 'Cruiser' is using binoculars for sighting, meaning the ranges are in excess of a mile...which then means the 'drop' in trajectory from shore would impact the river...any further range than that, and the ship would be in no danger, not w/a range of 6-thousand yards from shore! The shore-battery would need to be a '6-inch gun' to be effective....(perhaps the producers felt no one would notice the complete lack of effective weapons) and I also wonder where and how China could have gotten-hold of a six-inch shore battery array in the 1940's...such weapons are sophisticated and incredibly heavy and require very skilled gunnery with precision, something the Chinese did not possess then.

[@alecblunden8615]

My memory f the events was that Amethyst a sloop, and a destroyer were the only units engaged although Black Swan and the County Class cruiser London were in support and both Consort and Black Swan took hits. The was never a class of any warship called "cruiser" and none of the ships were armoured, apart from London Amethyst was entitled to be there next International Law - never something the CCP was much acquainted with - and staged a daring dash to the sea despite the best efforts of the Chinese. Certainly, the Chinese did not cover themselves with glory.

[@jeffreywilliams144]

Still have No Idea Why The Waning British Empire Continued Normal Relations With Communist China Thoroughout the Korean War and Beyond. Mr. Churchill Must Know

[@王菲-i8i]

怕丢了女王皇冠上的明珠。

[@garciavelert]

nos falta un Blas de Lezo . un Galvez O una Maria Pita para recordarles que no siempre ganan y que susu derrotas las cuentan como victorias

[@zichen5223]

At the time, the Royal navy were still assuming that the Yangtze was under full control of KMT, what they didnt know was that the kiangyin fortress was long abandoned by Generalissimo's troops who had only one thing in their mind, retreat and getting onto one of the boats sailing for Formosa. The communist troops after their sweeping victory at Xuzhou were reorganized into several new field armies equipped with American artilary pieces, one of those batteries was stationed at Kiangyin Fortress, which overlooks the narrow passage of the lower Yangtze. and soldiers manned these guns apparently knew nothing about international treaties and practices, their order was simple, shoot anything that moves in the river

[@victorwormington4196]

'mom

[@jameshdr5583]

You meant colonial treaties?? Hahaha

[@吃牛肉的兔斯基]

你对世界真是一无所知

[@王菲-i8i]

你说的条约是什么？在一个主权国家的内河里其他国家的武装军舰随便航行？醒醒吧，还以为是殖民时期的大英帝国么？

[@SevernCityBoy]

Looks great - but wouldn't there be recoil off the ship's guns? And how come the flashes on the ship seem to come from the side opposite where it's being fired on from? Still, cracking film, and you can only admire the sailors involved.

[@jimcrawford5039]

the movie was shot in widescreen 16.9.

[@truejim]

Keye Luke from “Kung Fu” at 6:42.

[@user-dq6tf9ms6q]

Is this real story ? What battle is this haha

[@熊三-h3h]

我解放军军舰侵入泰晤士河，朝英舰开炮，英国是不是很欢迎😂

[@harbourdogNL]

Just so you understand correctly, anyone born in Hong Kong prior to July 1 1997 is not from China. They're from HK.

[@A29377698]

這就是打遍七大洋的皇家海軍！感覺不怎麼樣啊

[@tonybrown3092]

哈哈哈哈哈哈哈，英国皇家海军现在只有三十条船了呦！

[@A29377698]

@@tonybrown3092 所以這表示我們也可以擊沉俾斯麥和維內托囉

[@jb0123babe]

怕是不知道北约

[@东皇太一-k7y]

After 100 years of humiliation after the opium war we finally wipe out these bastar and barbarian and will never again let them to offense the people of Middle Kingdom.

[@flemhawker9134]

趁香 sorry old son.

[@东皇太一-k7y]

Glinkling Smearnops I don not know you resources.but if what you said is true,then what you said proves my words.why would all those happens? Because of the opium war and it by products.without the opium war,the traditionally monarchy will evolve it selfs to become a industry countries and became parliamentary system.however with the destroy of the old system by opium trade ,the civilization lose all it capital to transform and the people dining .and the extremes fundamentalist idea spread ,which is the results of the invasion and the spread of Christmas religion of British.so there came the tianping civil war which leads to 200 millians casualty .and effects leads to the box rebellion and the new culture movement,which is the start of culture revolution and great leap forward .so with out the pain brings by the englisher.all this would not happen.you say the name is called Great Leap Forward?who need to leap forward if you are already in the first circle and you are in the front of the civilization? Only those who were suffering and fallen from the top .so all those suffering are inevitable and are directly results of British invation.you can find the data about the expected life for each person ,and you will find how the colonization decrease dynamically the life of colonizied and and increase those evils.i must say the uk did do brings those without civilization region to a barely order,like some African ,or Pacific Ocean islands however for other advanced civilizations,if leads to total disaster. anyway Maos wife's father is the Ph.D. Of philosophy of u.k Edinburg university. And his father in law like him very much and try to give all his knowledge social networks and his daughter to him.Mao also know the practical way to make things done just like the uker.

[@Jake-xe4cv]

....yawn. Drivel

[@1IbramGaunt]

You realise the Amethyst GOT AWAY right, the British WON here, AGAIN, at a heavy cost true but still, you started it and you didn't avenge jack shit pal

[@1IbramGaunt]

@@东皇太一-k7y make that make sense in our language please so I can read it and reply

[@akltom]

after amethyst incident, no more foreign warships free enter chinese rivers.

[@edmonddantes3640]

After Wuhan flu outbreak, no countries trust ChiComs , you lying bunch of filth.

[@akltom]

@@edmonddantes3640 over 1 million right?🤣

[@akltom]

@@edmonddantes3640 shut your holes baby, wear your fucking mask if you have one😅

[@edmonddantes3640]

@@akltom You'll be crying when countries start pulling their industries out laughing boy. Suck on that 😂😂🤣😂😝😈

[@akltom]

@@edmonddantes3640 with 1.4 billion poluation market, i'm not worry about it😏

[@Anton-du-Fleur]

I was apprentice to Ken Winfield

[@cyliang8832]

尤德爵士👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@phizgp]

Where is Simon?

[@jasonjung0614]

英軍跟國民黨勾結？假賽啦！

[@homerquan]

Both sides showed very controlled temper. UK lost face to win new Chinese government heart.

[@jiaxinkou5654]

legal? double check the history log for that please. a simple fact is that the country was at civil war and Nationalist was losing. And Briton send an armed ship for supply in war region, which was stupid enough. They should expect that situation and not to send their troops in unnecessary danger.

[@1IbramGaunt]

The ship had permission to be there, was clearly marked as being British to both sides, the flag of a neutral power, was taking no offensive action and was simply sailing down the river minding it's own business when they started firing at her without warning or provocation. The British were there to guard their own embassy, that the Amethyst had been headed for at the time, and had been neither supplying nor assisting the Nationalist forces in this case

[@yorkyufan]

@@1IbramGaunt You need to get a few facts checked. First, you're right on that the British did get permission from GMT government. But they did not notify the PLA. So the PLA had no idea they would be there. Second, the PLA fired warning shots at the beginning. The British not only ignored it but also shot back at the shore, that led to full scale battle. So imagine you were the PLA, in the heat of a civil war, right before a full scale campaign to across the river to attack the GMT at the south, seeing a British battle ship entering the war zone, having no idea why they were here and what they were going to do, firing warning shot trying to stop the ship, but got shot back from the ship, what would you do?

[@王菲-i8i]

@@1IbramGaunt中立？我还记得甲午海战的时候，英国的商船互送清军去朝鲜，同样打着中立的旗子，被日本海军击沉，最后英国政府连个屁都没放。就是打轻了。应该击沉紫石英，你们就再也不会觉得武装船只在主权国家的内河行驶是什么中立了？管你保护什么？那都是违反国际法。强盗逻辑

[@chudley3169]

Herrings in !!

[@charlessmith5656]

8

[@shawnrob5699]

果然是老电影，分镜做得不成熟

[@thouse0071]

If you switched the sides it's easy to figure out how much bullshit this movies is. If the British Royal Marines were a conducting a river crossing operation on the Tames, and there was a Chinese battleship sitting in the middle of the river, you think that would be okay?

[@patricalhenmox9389]

Movie is shit can't hide ur embarrassment on the history that UR ship got fucked up.

[@melvinjohnson7033]

A very distorted account trying to make the Brits look the victims. In reality China and many other countries/colonies were tired of living under the jackboot of the British military. You know how this worked, an Englishman could kill a local Asian or African and the worst that would happen is he would be sent home. A local only pushes an Englishman and gets a long jail sentence. The colonial, oppressive English were warned many times and chose to ignore these warnings. In the end they got what they deserved. The Royal Navy was humiliated by a couple of obsolete artillery pieces. RN gunnery was quite poor, hitting everything except the shore batteries. Now some of you may question the wisdom of not just blowing this crippled frigate out of the water after it grounded. But the negotiations served to further humiliate the English. Additionally the Amethyst was paid off after returning so she was as good as sunk. Also note HMS Consort really thought she could come rolling in and scare off the Chinese gunners. Instead the Chinese shore batteries started to score on Consort at which point she turned tail and ran away. A similar attempt by HMS London and Black Swan resulted in these two cowardly Captains turning tail and running from the enemy. Hardly in the tradition of Lord Nelson.

[@alanvt1]

So you supported the Viet cong then?

[@rutabagasteu]

That ship was supplying nonbeligerants. With food and other supplies. The British should have used bombers on the artillery firing on the Amethyst.

[@Emilechen]

rutabagasteu whenwBritish loses, they pretend to be civilians, so do you need China send some non beligerant warships to Times?

[@rutabagasteu]

@@Emilechen I'm an amateur historian. China attacked the Amethyst for pathetic reasons. I.e. politics. They could have been better to that ship, and not harmed anyone. Yes. I know about past events in the 1800s. Oh. And I'm not British.

[@SevernCityBoy]

In fairness, I can imagine we'd be pissed off if the Chinese trundled a battle ship half way up the River Severn.

[@929Finn]

Sad that civilians on the Kiang Lin Liberation had to die by the fault of PLA and British troops.

[@929Finn]

***** I'm not defending the British's actions but the PLA still are at fault for firing.

[@XxxcloackndaggerxxX]

I agree with you 100 per cent! The British MOD was given three months warning to stay away! I am a top researcher on this subject.

[@刘之-q8l]

finn .mov 如果美軍在來第三次世界大戰就會爆f

[@王菲-i8i]

@@929Finn在自己的领土像外国武装船只开火有什么过错？中国的军舰如果进去泰晤士河，并且全副武装。你们不开火？

[@morriganravenchild6613]

Nice peace loving people - the Chinese. Nothing has changed in nearly 70 yrs.

[@thelastpetrolbender2744]

wtf is drug dealer GB doing with their powerful Ship deep in the Chinese water?Would you have a fully loaded Chinese Military ship doing a cruise in Times river middle of London?

[@andy2023tang]

In April 1949, the Third Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was preparing to launch a cross-river operation in the Zhenjiang section of the Yangtze River the next day. The British Navy's Far East Fleet frigate "HMSAmethyst" ignored the People's Liberation Army's announcement of April 20, 1949, the deadline for foreign ships to evacuate the Yangtze River, and broke into the People's Liberation Army's front line to cross the river section. After disobeying the warning and being shelled by the People's Liberation Army, the "Amethyst" immediately fired back. During the artillery battle, the "Amethyst" was seriously damaged and ran aground. From the afternoon of April 20 to 21, the People's Liberation Army artillery will successively arrive for reinforcements from the British Navy's Far East Fleet destroyer HMS Consort, heavy cruiser HMS London, and frigate HMS Black. Swan) repelled. Subsequently, the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the United Kingdom initiated contacts and negotiations on the issue of responsibility for the incident and the detention of the "Amethyst", but no results have been achieved. On July 30, 1949, the "Amethyst" escaped during the night and exchanged fire again with the People's Liberation Army artillery on the way. On July 31, the "Amethyst" escaped from the Yangtze Estuary, and the relevant negotiations between the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the United Kingdom were terminated. In the "Amethyst" incident, the Chinese People's Liberation Army suffered 252 casualties, and the British Navy suffered 45 deaths, 1 missing, and 93 injuries. The "Amethyst" also caused heavy casualties among civilians during its escape. This incident demonstrated the firm determination and strong courage of the Chinese Communist Party, which is about to establish a new China, to defend national sovereignty. This incident also marked the final end of the "gunboat diplomacy" of Great Britain and other powers in China.

[@Lee-70ish]

Read a few comments about this all i will say was my old man was RN in the 40's and said it was a total cock up just like Suez was and the Admiralty bloody knew it a utter embarrassment

[@davidhappyman291]

WHY HAVE YOU BLOCKED THE THEME MUSIC OF THE FILM SHAME ON YOU>

[@johnnowakowski4062]

I don't understand why those big guns on those battle cruisers can't outgun those peewee guns onland...

[@sahilsahota4421]

John Nowakowski shooting from a ship is not as accurate as from land, ships are not armored as well as land based batteries, land based guns are spread out, are smaller targets covered by terrain

[@dkavo4457]

知道错了吧

[@waterng3991]

美帝：F＊＃＠！只是堂表哥的海軍太弱啦！要是換成是我們的艦隊⋯哇哈哈哈哈哈哈！！

[@waterng3991]

+Water Ng 估計他們的回應是如此

[@刘玄德-s8b]

美国人当时几乎已经放弃老将了好吧，怎么可能再去掺合进去。只有英国人不识时务。

[@wawensa]

Water Ng 来啊 连衣阿华战列舰都击沉在长江底

[@刘之-q8l]

华夏守护 這不可能

[@BellaZuikaku4785]

What movie is this? Ik definitely it's not Sink the Bismarck because it took place in the Atlantic. Not near shore

[@notwocdivad]

Yangtse Incident, As the name suggests took place on the Yangtse river, HMS AMETHYST was the ship

[@BellaZuikaku4785]

Yangtze Incident? That's the movie?

[@ThatsMrMoronToYou]

Also known as Battle Hell.

[@dennisralph2199]

David Lynch The last battle of the German battleship Bismarck took place in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 300 nmi (350 mi; 560 km) west of Brest, France, on 26-27 May 1941. Although it was a decisive action between capital ships, it has no generally accepted name.

[@BellaZuikaku4785]

dennis ralph Ik it's not Sink the Bismarck, Ik the movie is name Battle Hell, Not Sink the Bismarck

[@knightnight1894]

Why British ship in China's river? Didn't they know rivers are not international water? Why British always invaded others home?

[@illuminatiehmful]

The arrogance of the British Captain to ignore the Chinese ultimatum caused the disaster of the HMS Amethyst.

[@FicusVirens]

+Michael Tan Correct. Every British person here intentionally ignores the ultimatum that asks the warships to leave before April 20th.

[@Jake-xe4cv]

....bollocks

[@jamescam4559]

We don't take orders from commies...fire fire

[@Capt_Tarmac]

Arrogant British..ask the Irish and Indians..or the French or Americans

[@Jake-xe4cv]

...stupid tozzer.

[@billstamford1043]

What you Guys fail to realize. The Royal Navy was keeping China British for their own good.

[@douglasporter3865]

Rubbish. China wasn't British and hadn't been for a long time. British armed forces were present in China as embassy guards and so on.

[@mattdavies7398]

Douglas Porter It's parody. Watch Monty Python 'The Meaning of Life' for the reference.

[@douglasporter3865]

Ah, never seen it :)

[@Jake-xe4cv]

...yawn more drivel

[@willianchanrockin3952]

HMS Queen Elizabeth should have prepared a huge white flag if cross the line at the South China Sea!

[@ThatsMrMoronToYou]

Ian Bannon at 5:18.

[@ThatsMrMoronToYou]

Master Po at 6:41.