''El Amir Farouq'', also written as ''Emir Farouk'' or ''King Farouk'', was a sloop of the Egyptian Navy launched in 1926 as a passenger cargo ship before conversion to military service in 1936. She was similar in construction and appearance to the

Flower-class sloop The Flower class comprised five sub- classes of sloops built under the Emergency War Programme for the Royal Navy during World War I, all of which were named after various flowers. They were popularly known as the "herbaceous borders", in humo ...

but differed in engines and armament. She served as the flagship of the Egyptian Navy. On 22 October 1948, the ship was sunk in the

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ...

off Gaza by an

explosive motorboat An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure. An expl ...

of the

Israeli Navy The Israeli Navy ( he, חיל הים הישראלי, ''Ḥeil HaYam HaYisraeli'' (English: The Israeli Sea Corps); ar, البحرية الإسرائيلية) is the naval warfare service arm of the Israel Defense Forces, operating primarily in ...

during the

Israeli naval campaign in Operation Yoav The Israeli naval campaign in Operation Yoav refers to the operations of the Israeli naval service (later Israel Navy) during Operation Yoav (October 15–22, 1948) in the final stage of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The main objective of the naval ...

as part of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.Wandres, J., "Ben-Gurion's Bathtub Corps," ''Military History'', March 2016, p. 67.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:El Amir Farouq 1926 ships Ships built on the River Tyne Sloops of the Egyptian Navy Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea Maritime incidents in 1948 1948 Arab–Israeli War