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Next submarine to be named after sunken Dakar
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe next submarine to join Israel’s fleet will be named the INS Dakar, naval chief Ram Rothberg tells the Haifa ceremony, after an Israeli submarine that sank in the Mediterranean in 1968.
The Dakar was en route from Scotland to Israel when it sank with 69 Israeli sailors aboard. It was only found in 1999, between Crete and Cyprus.
The episode remains a deeply painful one for the state, as well as a mystery, with a conclusive theory on why it sank never set.
A number of memorials for the sub exist around the country, as well as streets named after it.
The new sub, slated to arrive in Israel from Germany next year, will also be fitted with a memorial to the soldiers.
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