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INS Dakar ({{lang-he|אח"י דקר}}) was a diesel–electric submarine in the Israeli Navy. The vessel, which was a modified World War II British T-class submarine, had previously been {{HMS|Totem|P352|6}} of the Royal Navy. She had been purchased by Israel from the Government of the United Kingdom as part of a three T-class submarine deal in 1965. However, Dakar and her entire 69-man crew were lost en route to Israel on 25 January 1968. Despite extensive searches over the course of three decades, its wreckage was not found until 1999, when it was located between the islands of Cyprus and Crete at a depth of approximately {{convert|3000|m|abbr=on}}. The submarine's conning tower was salvaged and is on display outside Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum in Haifa. The exact cause of Dakar{{'}}s sinking remains unknown. It was one of four submarine disappearances in 1968; the others were those of the {{ship|French submarine|Minerve|S647|6}}, the {{ship|Soviet submarine|K-129|1960|6}} and the U.S. submarine {{USS|Scorpion|SSN-589|6}}.

Early career

HMS Totem was built as a group 3 variant of the British T-class submarine that was constructed during World War II at HM Dockyard Devonport. She was launched on 28 September 1943 and commissioned in early 1945. After the end of World War II, Totem, along with the other surviving group 3 boats, was equipped with submarine snorkels to allow for longer periods of operation underwater. Between 1951 and 1953, Totem was one of eight British Navy submarines to be converted to the "Super T" design which allowed the vessel to travel at higher and quieter underwater speeds.

Purchase by Israel

In 1965, Totem was purchased by Israel, along with two of her T-class sister boats, {{HMS|Truncheon|P353|2}} and {{HMS|Turpin|P354|2}}. The former Totem was commissioned into the Israeli Navy at Portsmouth, England on 10 November 1967 as INS Dakar (דקר, {{lang-en|Swordfish}}),^[1] under the command of Major Ya'acov Ra'anan. She then headed to Scotland to conduct sea and dive trials. Late in 1967, Dakar returned to Portsmouth before leaving for Israel on 9 January 1968.

Dakar{{'}}s first port call after leaving the UK was Gibraltar on the morning of 15 January. She departed at midnight on 16 January with the intention of crossing the Mediterranean Sea on snorkel. The original schedule was for the submarine to enter her new home base at Haifa on 2 February. During her voyage, she was making excellent speed (averaging over {{convert|8|kn|abbr=on}}), and Major Ra'anan radioed Haifa to request entering port ahead of schedule. He was ordered to enter on 29 January. Later, Ra'anan requested to enter a day earlier on Sunday. This request was denied, as the welcoming ceremony could not be rescheduled.

Loss

At 06:10 on 24 January 1968 Dakar transmitted her position, 34.16°N 26.26°E, just east of Crete. Over the next 18 hours she sent three control transmissions which did not include her position. Her final broadcast was at 00:02 25 January, after which no further transmissions were received.

On 26 January the British Admiralty reported the submarine was missing and gave the last known position as {{convert|100|mi|km}} west of Cyprus. An international search and rescue operation began, including units from Israel, the United States, Greece, Turkey, Britain and Lebanon. Although the Israeli Navy in Haifa began broadcasting calls to commercial vessels to be on the look out for Dakar, Israeli officials would not admit the submarine was missing. On 27 January, a radio station in Nicosia, Cyprus, received a distress call on the frequency of Dakar{{'}}s emergency buoy, apparently from south-east of Cyprus, but no further traces of the submarine were found. On 31 January, all non-Israeli forces abandoned their search at sunset. Israeli forces continued the search for another four days, ceasing at sundown on 4 February 1968.

Israel denied that Dakar sank as the result of hostile action and stated that Dakar was involved in crash diving exercises on its return voyage and was lost probably as a result of a mechanical failure. On 25 April 1968, Vice Admiral Abraham Botzer, commander of the Israeli Navy, stated that Dakar sank on 24 January 1968, two days before being reported missing due to "technical or human malfunctioning" and not "foul play".

Searches and discovery

On 9 February 1969, over a year after Dakar went missing, a fisherman found her stern emergency buoy marker washed up on the coast of Khan Yunis, a town southwest of Gaza. British T-class submarines had two such buoy markers, bow and stern, secured behind wooden doors in cages under the deck and attached to the submarine with metal cables {{convert|200|m|ft|sp=us}} long. However, the experts who examined the {{convert|65|cm|in|abbr=on|0}} of cable still attached to the buoy made several inaccurate determinations. Their conclusions, that the buoy had remained attached to the submarine for most of the preceding year until the cable broke completely, Dakar rested in depth between {{convert|150|and|326|m|ft|sp=us|0}}, and was {{convert|50|-|70|nmi|km|abbr=on}} off her planned route, misled searchers for decades. It was not until April 1999 and some 25 failed expeditions later that a search effort was concentrated along the original route.

On 17 January 1970, the Egyptian newspaper Al Akhbar reported that Dakar had been sunk by an Egyptian warship with depth charges. The Egyptian story was told in a 2 July 2005 interview by Asharq Al-Awsat with General Mohamed Azab (major at that time):

The Israeli government stated there was no evidence to substantiate the Egyptian unofficial charges.

During the 1980s the Israelis, using a salvage vessel with Egyptian liaison officers, conducted three searches for Dakar in waters north of Sinai and another search off the Greek island of Rhodes. In August 1986, the U.S. Navy committed a P-3 Orion and a S-3 Viking to search Egyptian waters near al-Arish. In October 1998, Israel began running advertisements in newspapers in Turkey, Egypt, France, Greece and Russia offering rewards of up to $300,000 for any information on the fate of Dakar.

On 24 May 1999 a joint U.S.–Israeli search team using information received from U.S. intelligence sources and led by Thomas Kent Dettweiler, a subcontractor from American Nauticos Corporation, detected a large body on the seabed between Crete and Cyprus, at a depth of some {{convert|3,000|m|ft|sp=us|0}}. On 28 May the first video pictures were taken by the remote operated vehicle Remora II, making it clear that Dakar had been found. She rests on her keel, bow to the northwest. Her conning tower was snapped off and fallen over the side. The stern of the submarine, with the propellers and dive planes, broke off aft of the engine room and rests beside the main hull.

During October 2000 a survey of the Dakar wreckage and the wreckage site was undertaken by Nauticos corporation and the Israeli Navy. Some artifacts were recovered, including the submarine's bridge, the boat's gyrocompass and many small items.

The exact cause of the loss is unknown, but it appears that no emergency measures had been taken before Dakar dived rapidly through her maximum depth, suffered a catastrophic hull rupture, and continued her plunge to the bottom. The emergency buoy was released by the violence of the hull collapse, and drifted for a year before washing ashore.

Later developments

A memorial designed by architect David Brutzkus was dedicated in 1971 at the National Military and Police cemetery in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. It is inscribed with a Hebrew Bible verse from Psalm 77:19: "Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though Your footprints were not seen."

Dakar{{'}}s bridge and forward edge of her sail are now a memorial display in the Naval Museum in Haifa.

The recovery of any still-existing remains of the crew members has been considered. This would permit their Jewish burial in Israel as Judaism does not recognize burial at sea and requires burial in earth. To date crew members' families have held a ceremony in a ship over the submarine's remnants. The Rabbinical authorities had to solve complicated problems of Jewish law before the crew members' wives could be declared officially widows, so that they could remarry.^[3]

In 2008, a film was released, entitled Full Circle, a documentary about the search for the wreckage. In May 2009, a book was published by Nauticos president David W. Jourdan entitled, Never Forgotten: The Search and Discovery of Israel's Lost Submarine Dakar. This book chronicles the history of the submarine, the story of the families of the 69 lost sailors, and the events leading to the discovery in 1999.^[4]

On 1 September 2015 it was reported that the previously-classified reports on the loss of Dakar and the subsequent search were released to the families of the submarine's crew.^[5]

In 2018 the Navy proposed naming their newest submarine Dakar in tribute to the original vessel. After the families of the Dakar's crew protested, the name was changed to Dragon which shares the same letters in Hebrew. ^[6]

In popular culture

References

1. ^{{cite book| first =David W. | last = Jourdan|title=Never Forgotten: The Search for, and Discovery of, Israel's Lost Submarine Dakar |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HUmvPAAACAAJ |year= 2009 |publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn= 978-1-59114-418-2}}
2. ^معلومات جديدة قد تفك لغز الغواصة الإسرائيلية «داكار» التي غرقت أمام ساحل الإسكندرية عام 1968 (translated herein from Arabic with minor editing)
3. ^http://www.jta.org/1981/03/02/archive/all-crew-members-of-submarine-dakar-officially-declared-dead-chief-rabbi-says-wives-of-crew-members
4. ^{{cite book|author=David W. Jourdan|title=Never Forgotten: The Search for [sic] and Discovery of Israel's Lost Submarine Dakar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HUmvPAAACAAJ|year=2009|publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn=978-1-59114-418-2}}
5. ^{{cite news|title=Families of Israeli submarine crew receive declassified reports on ’68 sinking|url=http://www.jta.org/2015/09/01/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/families-of-israeli-submarine-crew-receive-declassified-reports-on-68-sinking|accessdate=2 September 2015|agency=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=1 September 2015}}
6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-navy-sub-to-be-called-dragon-after-original-choice-draws-fire/|title=New Navy sub to be called ‘Dragon’ after original choice draws fire|last=|first=|date=|work=The Times of Israel|access-date=}}