Day
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Hour
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Event
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20 Oct. 1967
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22:00
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Radar surveillance devices as well as visual surveillance detect the appearance of targets in the vicinity of Port Said at a distance ranging from 13 to 25 nautical miles outside the Egyptian territorial waters throughout the night and until the next morning.
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21 Oct. 1967
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07:50
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Alarm system in Port Said base monitored tow targets moving at a distance of 15 to 25 miles off the coast of Port Said moving alternately approaching the coast for a 15 mile distance while the other will be at a distance of 25 miles.
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11:25
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Visual surveillance of Port Said base make sure of the identity of the hostile target and it was a British origin destroyer type Z
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12:00
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Entry of one of the 2 targets within the territorial waters by one nautical mile to become its distance from the coast to only 11 miles (territorial waters 12 nautical miles - 22 kilometers) before it went out again.
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12:00
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Wireless signal order to not attack the enemy.
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12:10
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In a telephone call to avoid eavesdropping hostile and the work of the enemy camouflage, General Command ordered to destroy any target enters territorial waters .
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13:15
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Target appears again near the coast with no entering territorial waters.
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15:00
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Notification from an Egyptian commercial ship named Suez Canal cruising off the coast of Port Said to inform seeing two Israeli navy pieces cruises off the coast of Port Said - ( This captain was a former Egyptian navy officer and has experienced with battleship identification).
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???
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Raising the degree of readiness of missiles missiles boats squadron type Kumar in Port Said led by Captain Ahmed Shaker.
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???
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Squadron commander Capt. Ahmed Shaker asked to disable the radar of the naval base, which was affecting the efficiency of the missiles boats radar at the port.
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16:15
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Hostile marine target at 14.5 nautical miles from the coast
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16:20
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Sailing of the Squadron (missiles boats 501 - 504) in the unobservable shipping lane and with a slow speed to not avoid enemy detection.
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17:25
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Hostile target within the territorial waters.
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Two missiles were launched from missiles boat 504 led by Capt. Ahmed Shaker.
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Big glare appeared on the horizon and the appearance of the target on missiles boats radar screens smaller than normal as a prove of been hit.
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17:30
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Capt. Ahmed Shaker sends a signal to the base - we have been engaged with the target and destroy it and drown it in accordance with orders - ended
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17:30
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Missiles boats start to return back to the port following base orders
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???
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Egyptian radio broadcast a statement on flooding the hostile target without mentioning any details
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18:00
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Restart the naval base radar in Port Said and the discovery of a target in the same place.
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The issuance of orders to Missiles boat No. 501 led by Captain Lotfi Gadallah to engage with the target and destroy it.
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18:30
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Sailing of missiles boat 501 heading for an engagement with the hostile target.
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19:40
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Missiles boat 501 launched 2 missiles on the target.
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Big glare appeared on the black sky and then target appeared as small points on missiles boats radar screens sign of being hit.
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19:47
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Some parts of the hostile target start to disappear from radar screens
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19:55
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Missiles boat 501 arrive to the Distance 5 miles from the target location and see the water lit and the presence of debris and the remains of destroyed in the water .
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20:00
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Complete disappearing of the hostile target from radar screens
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20:10
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Israel announces officially sinking of a battleship, a destroyer, without mentioning its name on the beginning
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20:15-22:00
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Helicopters and ships of the enemy appeared in the region coincided with the withdrawal of the missiles boat 501 toward Alexandria for the withdrawal of the enemy ships , which started chasing it away from Port Said , where it misdemeanors near the village of Ezbet El-borg near Damietta.
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23October 1967
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Conference of Egyptian Ministry of War spokesman Gen. Mustafa Kamel announcing the destruction of two hostile targets and not a unique one.
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