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| module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | website = | footnotes = | box_width = }} Commander John Simon Kerans MP DSO RN (30 June 1915 – 12 September 1985) was an officer in the Royal Navy and later a Conservative Party politician. He is also the author of the 1964 book ''The World's Greatest Sea Adventures'', Publisher: Odhams Books Ltd.〔(The World's Greatest Sea Adventures ) ''www.amazon.co.uk''〕 ==The Yangtze Incident== As Assistant British Naval Attaché in then Nanking, China in 1949, Lieutenant-Commander Kerans took command of when the ship came under fire on the Yangtze River during the final stages of the Chinese Civil War after the captain and 16 others were killed in the shelling.〔(John Kerans, 70, a Royal Navy commander who ran his... ) ''www.orlandosentinel.com''〕 The ship was detained for ten weeks during negotiations for its release, until Kerans led a night-time escape.〔(Give me more rum, sodomy and the lash ). ''www.telegraph.co.uk''〕 Kerans was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. The ''Amethyst'' incident was later the subject of a 1957 film called ''Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst'', in which Kerans was portrayed by the British actor Richard Todd. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Kerans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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