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It was not an alpable ship that organized the “Bas for the B” of “protection.” Its name was a manifestation of protest against the British Mandate authorities who opposed the humiliation.

History of her

"Satana" - a freight ship
"Stuna" (and also "Maria Christina") was a helicopter ship. Built in 1946, it was made of wood, with two masts and one deck. With a diesel engine for an Italian rapeldo, 300 as S.

"We will not be destroyed" - an elephant ship

Purchase and preparation
The ship was acquired by the Institute for a B increase by a ship contractor from Greece, for the Fratelli D'Amico.

He was prepared to sail by local crafts and ship escorts, and we built her tolls. The ship was equipped with a wooden boat for 10 people and three rubber boats.
In the midst of preparations, he was sent to the sea to rescue a ship that was sinking.
As well as a 21 tons of fuel (tone and a half a day), food for 14 days, water tanks 30 tons.

The ship's commander was a traitor to the survey of the Palmach and alongside him Pinchas Mishkov, and the gallon was a barren.
They had two shelters, two transmitters, and two generators.
For the lenders, the Palms were built in a basket under the food warehouse.

The captain and the name of the Samim were all Italians.

The elephants.
853 The elephants came from several European sites: Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Poland. Some were Zionist youth movements; most of them at the age of 30 and older. They were collected by the Mossad for an increase in B on various sites in the area of Gaza and in northern Italy. They moved in small groups of 30–40 people; they arrived in trucks, leg, and train, from Anana in northern Italy, reached 300 people. Those who went by train were accompanied by Mossad personnel for the B increase who went up at the Plazao station wearing uniforms of the American army. Another team arrived on December 8 on the bus.

The harrowing was in the Chitvaki region on the west coast of Italy versus Corsica. The raid was carried out secretly, with the help of boats on December 10, and continued until the dawn of December 11.

The cruise joined four people from a production team that dealt with the illegal film footage, about the humiliation of Europe: American writer Meir Levin who produced and directed the film, actors of the Tarska Torres and Nathanel Michaelovich (for the days of Isaac Michaeli), and the photographer in Burran Hes. The strong light-walls brought to the place of the harrowing on many rural coasts convinced by the activist of the rise to the Siri witness that they photograph a film about World War II and nothing. The villagers wanted to help and indeed helped with the fury and the tyrant of the boats, and even came to their wages.

With their ownership of the deck, the elephants were organized in groups according to their organizational affiliation, and assigned roles to them.

The cruise
She sailed on 11 December 1947 from a Roman resort in Italy.
The ship went out without problems, to the planned route: through the Strait of Siena, Crete, Alexandria, along the Egyptian coast.

The road lasted 13 days. On the sixth day, a storm erupted.

A confrontation with the British
A Turkish flag that shook the ship and its name "Cavhu", did not bother and did not prevent the British from following it.

On December 22, on 10:10, a British plane appeared in Liberty, which lasted 10 minutes.
At 18 a.m., four of them arrived.

The lenders and parasites have received guidelines: that the heart of the sea should not be resisted; if you consider a foreign branch, they will say that the sails with a cargo to Alexandria. If the British took over the ship, and the escorts were ordered to intervene between the elephants and continue with them to Cyprus, continue in contact until the moment of takeover, and then hide the instruments.

On December 23, 6:30 a.m., 90 miles from the coast, the British took control of the ship without resistance. The ship was brought to Haifa.
On 10:15 p.m., on 23 December, the people were transferred to the ship Ocean and Village. The transfer was made quietly. Journalists and