"to the Negev"

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Lanagev was an elephant ship organized by the Institute for an increase in the 'protection'.

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Buying and preparing for a cruise
Built after the First World War, a small sail ship with a motor, with two masts. In the front row, rectangular sails and in the back of a large triangle; taken: 400 tons; 150 horsepower; speed 6 connection; the previous name was Merica.

It was acquired by the Institute for an increase in B through Danderia "The Guz", a Greek who lived in Italy. The preparation team to ship the ship owners and local workers. We have prepared accommodation for 650 people in three floors, above that. Each rank was a rescue belt. The ship had two rescue boats, and 30 rockets. The ship was re-painted. Fuels were brought to 11 days of sailing, food for 20 days, which was not enough and was removed after 15 days. The institute’s personnel for the increase in B have installed radio transmitters; the As.O.S. device, a battery-filling device and a power supply.
The captain and eleven crew members were Italian, including an Italian naval officer at the rank of the first officer, and two of them. The commander of the ship was a member of the Palmach, Talmon-Tuman, and alongside him, Moshe Depriot, the Palmachman, and the quarrels of Arnon-Arnoevsky, who were called Joseph. The board site for the ship was at the port of St. France.

647 The elephants were Holocaust survivors from Poland, Hungary Romania: about 120 souls from the Beitar movement, about 80 “Zionist youth” (general grades), about 200 former partisans, and a youth group from England and the United States, of “rescuing” youth, and also a group of young pioneers from Morocco from the Hod movement.
They were collected in camps in San Jerome and five more camps, for each movement separately. The French police knew of the desperation operation, refugee certificates were issued to the parasites, and they were taken from them in an orderly manner before they were raised to the ship. The elephants were brought to the ship during the afternoon. The first refused to enter the ship, because they saw the narrow passages and the conditions of the dense living, and it was necessary to speed them up in the modules and shouts. Since they were running in a column, those who were behind pushed those who were in the door because they didn’t know what they were expecting. Because of the disorder that was cooled, the blow lasted four hours. The two escorts of the land were divided into positions; one with the foreign crew of the ship and the other with the elephants and began between them. The elephants were organized in groups and received roles of cleanliness, kitchen and preservation.

The cruise
She sailed on 18 January 1947 from the port of St in France at 13:35. The planned cruise route from the port of St. included the Lyon Bay, the Ligo Sea, Corca, the Strait of Bonifacio between Corika and Sardinia, the island buffers in front of the Gulf of Gaata, the island of Iquita, Capri, our old spoon, a spoon filled in northern Sicily, the Strait of Siena, the Gulf of Trento, towards Greece, the Gulf of Crete, and the coast of Egypt, to the coast.

On the first night of the cruise, water began to penetrate the ship, and the ancestors were destroyed. The campers corrected the trucks, and in the meantime, he was manually incarcerated in the buckets. Because of a storm, the route was different towards the Hyeres port in France, where the ship found shelter, and from there it sank to the Strait of Bonifacio.
On 21 January, strong winds that did not allow progress. On January 24, a storm was raging in the Gulf of Siena, and the ship returned to northern Sicily to take shelter. On January 25th, he was parked in northern Sicily and took a boat with a lot of sailors and two more sailors to buy food. The three fled with the money and left the boat on the beach. With local fishermen, the boat was returned.

On January 27, the ship was again sinking south of a container to buy goods. The food on the ship was bad, and the purchase improved the situation. Instead of the Italian police,