page_title: HMS Mendip (L60)
section_title: Israeli Navy service
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Mendip (L60) / Post-war career / Israeli Navy service
caption_attribution_description: Ibrahim al-Awal, formerly HMS Mendip (L60), captured by Israel from Egypt in 1956. Renamed to Haifa (K-38).
context_page_description: HMS Mendip (L60) was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was a member of the first subgroup of the class. The ship is notable for seeing service in the navies of three other nations after her use by the Royal Navy. She saw service in the Second World War and later as an Egyptian Navy ship in the Suez Crisis. She was captured in battle on 31 October 1956 by the Israeli Navy and re-commissioned as INS Haifa.
context_section_description: The Egyptian destroyer was subsequently incorporated into the Israeli navy and renamed Haifa. She served with the Israeli navy through the late 1960s, when she was decommissioned. According to one source, she was relegated to duty as a target ship in 1968 and sunk after being hit by a Gabriel missile. Other sources write that she was deployed for training duties until 1970, then relegated to the role of accommodation ship before being scrapped in 1972.
  One of her twin 4-inch gun turrets and a depth charge thrower are preserved at the Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum, Haifa.
caption: Ibrahim el Awal being towed to the port of Haifa after being captured by the Israeli Navy.
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