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The command was an elephant ship that came out of Italy and reached the shores of the Land of Israel in May 1947 when it reached 1,414 elephants.

History of her

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The ship was built in Cleveland in 1896 for the American Coast Guard and was named "Gresham". It was operated in Michigan until the beginning of World War I. She participated in 1898 in the Spanish–American War.

During World War I, the Coast Guards served on the east coast of the United States and also to locate submarines in the Atlantic.
After being issued from the Coast Guard service, he served as a trade ship to transport bananas called Windds.

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In early 1947, the United Fruit Co Company was acquired by a Jewish-owned American company and served as a cover for the institution’s activities for the increase in B. The ship began its way to the land of Israel in Miami with a non-Jewish lease and a team whose majority were American Jewish volunteers. Most of the crew members were no marine training, except for three of them, Mori Greenfield, who was a sailor in the U.S. Navy before, Harold Katz, who served three years as an officer in the U.S. Navy and Sony Weintraub from Baltimore who served as a navigator in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

From Miami, the ship sailed to Belfast for repairs. In early March, she sailed to Lisbon, where she was distributed and built to transport immigrants. For the preparation of the ship in Lisbon, Yehuda was responsible for the Negev, the man of the institution for an increase in B that operated in the Company's representative coverage. United Fruit Co under the pseudonym of Dimond.

The Portuguese police arrested the Negev because it was suspected of the ship's mission. Immediately with the captain, the ship managed to leave the port because it was docked in the dock and was not related to the dock. The ship sailed to Marseille and then continued to Fort de Boc in southern France. He was released shortly after he was arrested.

The ship arrived in Italy, and some of the elephants rose to the ship with a dedication in the Portoenere dock, which broke into it. The rest went to the ship at the port of Bocca di Magra, south of La Spezia. “The Torah” sailed to the land of Israel on 8 May 1947, with a total of 1,414 elephants. The captain was Federini Yelin, the captain of the ship was Israel Ruthem, the Palm Man, and accompanied by Alex Shore and Meir Plak.

The cruise passed without unusual events until on May 16, the ship was discovered by a British plane near the shores of the country. It’s the drain immediately that sticks to the ship. The next day, the six ships of the British Navy were attacked. Despite the objection that she had discovered for several hours, the ship was brought to Haifa. At the time of the resistance, the ship commander asked one of the boys who worked on the ship, living a 16-year-old Cohen, to conduct the negotiations in his place, so as not to say that he was the ship commander and a defense man.

The ship was dragged to Haifa harbour on May 17, and by 2:00 a.m., most of the rapports were transferred from it to the Paris detention camp: Am Pierre Comport, Am Pierre Reast, Am Pierre Liepgard and Amphier Alechar. The transfer of the elephants has undergone no significant objection. According to the press reports, the deported Manin was 1411, of which 895 men, 479 women, 37 children and six U.S. nationals who were studied in the port, and were also deported to Cyprus.

Eight of the ship’s elephants were sent to the prison camp at the time – a couple with a newborn baby, two heart patients, and one of them’s girlfriend, a 16-year-old boy who was probably injured during the struggle with the British on board, and another young woman. The New York newspaper correspondent from Middle East, Shmuel Izban, who removed the ship’s journey, was sent to Cyprus, but later returned to the land of Israel and was deported to Paris. About S