NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
אֵילַת [Eilath] (ex-Zeaolus)	K40		Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, UK	5/1942	28.2.1944	10/1944 // 15.7.1955	sunk 21.10.1967
יָפוֹ [Yaffa] (ex-Zodiac)	K42		Thornycroft, Woolston, UK	11/1942	11.3.1944	10/1944 // 15.7.1955	stricken 1972

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1730
Displacement full, t	2575
Length, m	103.5 pp 110.6 oa
Breadth, m	10.9
Draught, m	4.42
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	40000
Max speed, kts	36.75
Fuel, t	oil 588
Endurance, nm(kts)	4675(20)
Armament	4 x 1 - 114/45 Mk 5, 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 5, 4 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3,  2 x 4 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (130)
Electronic equipment	type 275, type 291, type 293 radars, type 144Q sonar
Complement	186 - 222

Standard scale images

Project history

Transferred at Cardiff Docks. Renamed Eilath and Yaffa and refitted before going to Israel in July 1956.

Modernizations

mid-1960s, both: - 1 x 4 - 533 TT

Naval service Eilath sank on 21 October 1967 after being hit by three P-15 SSMs 14nm off Port Said. The missiles were fired from

Eilath sank on 21 October 1967 after being hit by three P-15 SSMs 14nm off Port Said. The missiles were fired from Egyptian Project 183R FAC inside the harbour. This was the first time in history that a warship was sunk by a ship-launched missile.