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Old 09-14-2020, 09:11 AM
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INS Haifa (K-38)

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HMS Mendip (L60) was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was a member of the first subgroup of the class. The ship is notable for seeing service in the navies of three other nations after her use by the Royal Navy.She saw service in the Second World War and later as an Egyptian Navy ship named Ibrahim el Awal in the Suez Crisis. she was dispatched to Haifa with the aim of shelling that city’s coastal oil installations. On 31 October she reached Haifa and began bombarding the city with her four 102 mm (4 inch) guns. She was captured in battle on 31 October 1956 by the Israeli Navy and re-commissioned as INS Haifa (K-38)
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