Cats have been brought on ships for various purposes throughout history, the most common one being to catch mice and rats. One such heroic cat was Simon, who famously guarded his soldiers aboard the ...

During April 1949 the frigate HMS Amethyst was on her way from Shanghai to Nanking to replace HMS Consort which was standing as guardship for the British embassy there during the Chinese Civil War.

The year was 1949 and he was certainly an unlikely hero. For the male in question was in fact a little black and white cat called Simon. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Quite how a stray cat ...

Second world war veteran Stewart Hett wore many hats while serving as a lieutenant on the British frigate HMS Amethyst in Asia in the late 1940s. “I was responsible for the ship’s anchor and its ...

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A cat who safeguarded the lives of soldiers in 1949 was commemorated today, on the 65th anniversary of his death. Royal Navy officers laid a wreath on the grave of Simon, their most distinguished cat, ...

BACK in 1954 a buzz of excitement went round Londonderry with the news that the famous ship HMS Amethyst was to be 'mothballed' at Lisahally, as part of the Royal Navy's Reserve Fleet. Amethyst made ...

In 1949 a British warship, HMS Amethyst, launched a daring escape after it was held captive for months by Chinese Communists on the Yangtze river. The ship had been badly damaged when it was fired on ...

THE role of a naval crew which undertook one of the most daring rescue operations in British history is to be debated at Westminster today following a campaign by a Scots veteran. Did you know with a ...

THIS week Craigneuk-born ex-Royal Navy man William Leitch will go to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to expose what he claims is a cover-up of an incident which left 180 heroes without medals.

Unintentional ironies abound in Hong Kong. Among the least known is the fact that, 15 years after the handover, a sizeable building in the former British Forces headquarters in Central is still called ...