HMS ZEALOUS (R39)

'HMS ''Zealous''' was a Z Class Destroyer built in 1944 by Cammell Laird.
''Zealous'' was one of four British destroyers of the Home Fleet that rescued 525 Norwegians, who had been hiding from German patrols in caves on the snow covered mountains of Soroy island, Norway for three months. The rescue involved the destroyers on a daring race 60 miles behind enemy lines. The Norwegians were safely evacuated to the British port of Gourock.
After the war, ''Zealous'' was commissioned into the Israeli Navy as ''Eilat'' and sunk by a Styx missile launched by Egyptian missile boats in 1967 off the Sinai.

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★ Eilat - The 48th Soul - The story of the eponymous Israeli navy ship "Eilat"