Hms Amethyst

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Amethyst'':
  1. Amethyst, launched in 1844, was a Spartan-class sixth-rate sail warship.
  2. Amethyst, launched in 1873, was the lead ship of her class of wooden screw corvettes.
  3. Amethyst, launched in 1903, was a Topaze-class third-class cruiser. In World War I, she fought at the battles of Heligoland Bight and Dardanelles. She was scrapped in 1920.
  4. Amethyst (T12), commissioned in 1935, was an anti-submarine trawler. She was sunk by a mine on 24 November 1940.
  5. Amethyst (U16), launched in 1943, was a modified Black Swan-class sloop. She served in World War II and in 1949 came under fire from the Chinese People's Liberation Army on the Yangtze River.

 

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