The Type 540 Gal-class submarine is a slightly modified variant of the German HDW Type 206 submarine class, modified for Israeli requirements. The Gal class submarines were built to Israeli specificat
INS Gal at the Naval Museum, Haifa
INS Gal on display at the Naval Museum, Haifa, showing entrances cut into hull
The Royal Navy's T class of diesel-electric submarines was designed in the 1930s to replace the O, P, and R classes. Fifty-three members of the class were built just before and during the Second World
Gal-class submarine
…supplanted previous generations of submarines employed from 1958 by the Israeli navy which were refurbished and upgraded boats of the British S class and T class; submarines whose hull designs dated back to the decade before World War II. Since entering service in the late 1970s, these small but agile and…
Drawing of the docking plans for late Tiptoe, Trump, Taciturn, Tapir, Teredo, Theban and Tijgerhaai
On board HMS Tribune in 1942
INS Leviathan (formerly HMS Turpin) and INS Dolphin (formerly HMS Truncheon) at Haifa port, in 1968.