Career
He is also the author of the 1964 book The World"s Greatest Sea Adventures, Publisher: Odhams Books Limited.
As Assistant British Naval Attaché in then Nanking, China in 1949, Lieutenant-Commander Kerans took command of HMS Amethyst 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. The ship was detained for ten weeks during negotiations for its release, until Kerans led a night-time escape. 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.
He served only one term in the House of Commons, and did not contest the 1964 general election.
He advocated the representation of Communist China in the United Nations.