Aug 16, 2017
The Haim Arlosoroff (right) run aground off of Bat Galim in Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine; 1947. x
In 1946 the U.S. Navy decommissioned ship Unalga was purchased by sympathetic American civilians and donated to the Haganah to participate in the Aliyah Bet. When the ship was received by the Haganah, it was renamed Chayim Arlosoroff after the assassinated leader of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and started a voyage that took 1,378 Jewish refugees in Sweden and Italy to the British Mandate of Palestine. The ship was intercepted by the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Chieftain and ran aground at Bat Galim, Haifa on 27 February 1947 - as pictured above. The crew and passengers were arrested by British authorities and interned in Cyprus.
