GULF OF AQABA
Israel Ship’s Passage
(Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, Mar. 19. Israel reported success in a test passage of a ship through the Gulf of Aqaba yesterday. Mrs Golda Meir, the Israeli Foreign Minister, confirmed in New York that the ship went through the gulf, which links the Bed Sea with the South Israel port of Eilath, without Arab interference.
The ship was identified in Jerusalem as the freighter Queen of Sheba.
The United Press quoted dispatches reaching Tel Aviv as saying that the freighter, after passing through the Strait of Tiran. •t the mouth of the 105-mile long gulf, was proceeding to Massawa, in Eritrea.
The voyage ordinarily takes six days.
The ship steamed past the shattered shore batteries at Sharm el Sheikh, where it had served to evacuate some of the Israeli occupation force on March 8.
She sailed in spite of Saudi Arabia’s contention, seconded by Egypt, that the gulf was Arab water not open to Israel.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28231, 20 March 1957, Page 13
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