Today marks the 55th anniversary of the Israeli destroyer Eilat being destroyed by the Egyptian navy on October 21, 1967. The destroyer, which made up half of the Israeli navy’s destroyer fleet, sank together with its crew of roughly 100 people as well as a group of marine college students. returning after a training excursion.
A completely different operation from the three attacks on the Israeli port of Eilat, during which four ships were flooded and the warfare of the port was detonated, is the process of dumping the Israeli naval destroyer “Eilat” HMS Zealous R39 in the Mediterranean Sea after the Egyptian naval forces flooded it on October 21, 1967, in front of Port Said.
The anguish of this day, and how the Egyptian human frogs destroyed the Israeli destroyer that symbolized key powers in the Israeli navy, have been described by the leaders and soldiers of the Israeli occupation army in their books and memoirs:
The Destroyer Eilat’s Story in Driver 48
The story of the sinking of the destroyer Eilat as Mushion Levy narrates, one of the soldiers who served on the destroyer until it was drowned.
Levy narrates in a literary style of life on board the destroyer and how he joined the service and his relationship with his colleagues and his leaders, until the moment the destroyed drowned and their watering from the water after many hours they are nearing drowning in Sea width. Levi was regarded as the same drowned 48 sailors who perished in that tragedy together with the other 47.
The destroyer Eilat’s final engagement
In a book titled “The last fight of the destroyer Eilat,” the captain of the destroyer Eilat shared his memoirs. He described the guerrilla process that Awni did as courage that reached the point of madness and that he felt very fear and the launch on his way towards the destroyer, and he dealt with some of the mysteries of drowning the destroyer, Nevertheless, he sees that there are many hidden things and secrets that have not yet been published.
In an interview with the magazine “Baminhane,” he discussed the final moments of the destroyer Eilat and laid the blame for what happened on the Military Intelligence and the navy command, who neglected to arm the destroyer and made it a target for the Egyptians.
Shoshan maintains that the destruction of the destroyer Eilat did not begin on October 21. Instead, he claims that in July, when Shoshan and his soldiers received a written order to travel to Port Said Beach to establish Israel’s presence there, an oral matter was discussed in a secret meeting that was unrelated to the written order. Shoshan and four other commanders were given an oral order to destroy Egyptian ships by Shlomo Ariel, the Israeli navy’s commander at the time, in an apparent effort to boost morale following his loss in the June battle.
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How did the commanders of the occupying army discuss the Egyptian epic while driving the Israeli destroyer Eilat?
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