MAKE A MEME View Large Image HMS Mendip (L60) c1948.jpg The Hunt-class destryoer HMS Mendip L60 She was lent to the Chinese Navy in May 1948 together with the light cruiser HMS Aurora 12 and was renamed Lin Fu after major general Zhang Ling Fu commander of the 74th ...
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Keywords: HMS Mendip (L60) c1948.jpg The Hunt-class destryoer HMS Mendip L60 She was lent to the Chinese Navy in May 1948 together with the light cruiser HMS Aurora 12 and was renamed Lin Fu after major general Zhang Ling Fu commander of the 74th division who fell during the Chinese Civil War After Aurora renamed Chung King defected to the communists in February 1949 Mendip was repossessed by Royal Navy in June 1949 and re-commissioned with the ship's company of the destroyer HMS Consort R76 She was sold to the Egyptian navy becoming Mohamed ali-El-Kebir on 15 November 1949 She was renamed Ibrahim-El-Awal later in 1951 As part of the naval operations during the Suez crisis she was left without power and unable to steer after an attack and Ibrahim el Awal surrendered to the Israeli navy The Egyptian frigate was subsequently incorporated into the Israeli navy and renamed Haifa She served with the Israeli navy through the late 1960s when she was decommissioned http //www navy mil/ah_online/department_arch html U S Navy All Hands magazine http //www navy mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah194901 pdf January 1949 p 20 ca 1948 U S Navy All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official U S Navy photographs unless otherwise designated PD-USGov-Military-Navy HMS Mendip L60 ship 1940 1956 in Egypt Mohamed Ali El-Kebir Ship 1949 Ibrahim El-Awal Ship 1951
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