Flagship of the Egyptian Navy, sunk in 1948
History
Kingdom of Egypt
Name El Amir Farouq
Namesake Farouk of Egypt
Builder Hawthorn Leslie , Tyne
Launched 11 November 1926
Commissioned 1936
Fate Sunk 22 October 1948
General characteristics
Displacement 1,441 t (1,418 long tons)
Length 75.3 m (247 ft 1 in)
Beam 10.4 m (34 ft 1 in)
Draught 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in)
Speed 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement 70
Armament 1 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 4 x 1 - 7.7/87
El Amir Farouq , also written as Emir Farouk or King Farouk , was a sloop of the Egyptian Navy launched in 1926 as a passenger cargo ship before conversion to military service in 1936. She was similar in construction and appearance to the Flower-class sloop but differed in engines and armament. She served as the flagship of the Egyptian Navy . On 22 October 1948,[ 1] the ship was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Gaza by an explosive motorboat of the Israeli Navy during the Israeli naval campaign in Operation Yoav as part of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War .[ 2] [ 3]
References
^ Gray, Randal, ed., Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships 1947–1982, Part II: The Warsaw Pact and Non-Aligned Nations , Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1983, ISBN 0-87021-919-7 , p. 301.
^ "El Amir Farouq 1926" . TyneBuiltShips . Retrieved 27 November 2015 .
^ Wandres, J., "Ben-Gurion's Bathtub Corps," Military History , March 2016, p. 67.
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1948
Shipwrecks Other incidents