HMS Amethyst

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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, the flagship of Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, 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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