Thursday, March 7, 2019

YANGTZE INCIDENT GOES UNNOTICED BY MEDIA

 Shipping   Reporter   files  another  Ghost  Fleet  special  from  Molly Malone's Irish   Pub , under new ownership .  

 
 Cattle  boat   loading  in   Townsville - Yangtze   Harmony- brings to mind  the dramatic  event  in   l949   when  the Royal Navy  frigate HMS Amethyst  came  under  fire   from  shore batteries   while    sailing up  the  Yangtze River,  bound  for  Nanking ,   in  the  Chinese  Civil War,  trapped for three months , resulting  in  the death  of   22  and  31  wounded . 
 
The  warship's    wounded   cat , Simon ,   who died soon  after  the   ship  returned  to the UK ,  posthumously  received the  Dickin  Medal , the   animals'  Victoria Cross .    Known  as  the  Yangtze Incident, it was  made into a  film of  the  same name   starring   Richard Todd .

Yangtze  Harmony has been  involved in the live sheep trade out of WA  , one shipment  involving 12,500  to Oman .