Egyptian sloop El Amir Farouq
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 a explosive motorboat of the Israeli Navy during the Israeli naval campaign in Operation Yoav as part of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.[2][3][4]
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| Name: | El Amir Farouq |
| Namesake: | Farouk of Egypt |
| Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie, Tyne, UK |
| Launched: | 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 |
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 sloop (1926) - Egyptian Navy (Egypt)". navypedia. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
- "El Amir Farouq 1926". TyneBuiltShips. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
- Wandres, J., "Ben-Gurion's Bathtub Corps," Military History, March 2016, p. 67.
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