INS Dakar

Surfaced: 1327 ts immersed 1571 ts

83,30 m

8.11 m

4.80 m

62 man

Diesel engines: 2500 hp (1864 kW) Electric motors: 1450 hp ( 1081 kW)

Emerged: 15.75 kn (29 km / h) submerged: 8.75 kn (16 km / h)

Emerged:

Immersed:

• 80 NM (148 km ) at 4 kn

The INS Dakar was a submarine of the British T -Class, which sank in 1968 as a boat of the Israeli Navy.

34.1626.26Koordinaten: 34 ° 9 ' 36 "N, 26 ° 15' 36" E The Dakar was found in 1945 as HMS Totem into service and acquired in 1965 as one of three submarines of Israel from the collections of the British navy. There she was put into service in November 1967 and undertook training rides near Scotland. Your last journey began on January 9, 1968 in Portsmouth, she disappeared on January 25, 1968 on the way to Haifa without a trace in the Mediterranean. In 1999, the wreck between Crete and Cyprus was located at a depth of 2900 m and lifted in part. In the fall of all 62 crew members were killed, the cause of the accident is unknown. Parts of the ship are on display at the Naval Museum in Haifa.

On Mount Herzl in Jerusalem there is a memorial to the members of the crew.