The Navy submits its official report regarding the sinking of the Dakar submarine, which disappeared along with its crew on or around January 25, 1968, to bereaved families whose relatives were on board. The vessel sank when it was making its way from the UK, where the IDF purchased it, to Israel.
The remains of the sub were only found in 1999 between Cyprus and the Greek island of Crete. Navy Commander Maj. Gen. Ram Rotberg says the report “sheds no new light but certainly raises questions regarding what exactly has happened.”
“The information,” he adds, “was given to the families as part of the moral duty of the corps and its commitment [to the families of the bereaved].”
Mysteriously, four submarines sank in 1968, including a French one, the Minerve, which sank on or around January 27, 1968, just days after the Dakar. The American and Soviet submarines, Scorpion and K-129, respectively, both sank in May of that year.
A British HMS Totem submarine, of the same model as the Israeli INS Dakar, which disappeared in late January 1968. (Public domain)
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