Word: woosung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close as possible, thus give the smaller enemy craft a minimum chance to rake his decks. The Amethyst scraped by with a bare 18 inches to spare. Then a junk without lights loomed up ahead and was sliced in two. Then the biggest guns of all, at Woosung, were safely passed, and the Amethyst was in the clear. In the wide mouth of the Yangtse, she met H.M.S. Concord and the sweaty, half-starved crew of the Amethyst cried openly as the Concord's men lined the rails and cheered...
Kerans radioed a message to his commander in chief: "Have rejoined the fleet. Am south of Woosung. No damage or casualties. God save the King...