Eilat naval base
The Eilat Naval Base is a military base of the Israeli Navy in Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea . It was founded in 1951. The base in command is Yossi Shahaf. The coat of arms of the location represents the red roofs of Eilat.
The naval base is in the port of Eilat. This has over 350,000 m² of usable space for port logistics and five cranes. The Patrol Boat Squadron 915 is stationed here. After the return of the Sinai Peninsula in 1981, the command of the Navy for the Red Sea was transferred from Sharm El-Sheikh to Eilat.
During the War of Attrition (June 1968 to August 1970), Egyptian naval commandos sank several Israeli ships in Eilat. When trying to defuse explosive devices , several specialists from Schajetet 13 lost their lives.
The decommissioned INS sofa ( Sa'ar 3 class ) was sunk off Eilat in 1994 as an artificial reef and is known by divers under the Hebrew word for speedboat ( satil ). A Nachschol-class patrol boat sank off Eilat in February 2005. In 2005, a flotilla of six NATO ships visited the base. In 2009 one of the submarines stationed in Haifa took part in an exercise off Eilat.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b globalsecurity.org
- ^ Entry on the military port of Eilat at globalsecurity.org
- ^ Samuel M. Katz: Israeli Elite Units since 1948. Oxford 1991, ISBN 0-85045-837-4 , page 32
- ↑ Satil ( Memento from May 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ kuna.net
- ↑ Jerusalem Post , March 23, 2005
- ↑ Israel won't base submarines in Red Sea, official says. In: Haaretz , July 5, 2009 ( online )
Coordinates: 29 ° 32 ′ 39.1 ″ N , 34 ° 56 ′ 50.4 ″ E