INS Dakar was the former modified
British T-class submarine of the
Royal Navy. In 1965, she was purchased by Israel as part of a group of three T-class submarines. She was
commissioned into the
Israeli Sea Corps in November 1967 and underwent sea and diving trials in Scotland.
Dakar departed for Israel on 9 January 1968, but disappeared en route with all hands. Despite extensive searches over the course of three decades,
Dakars wreckage was not found until 1999, when it was located between the islands of
Cyprus and
Crete. A portion of the vessel was salvaged and is on display at the Naval Museum in
Haifa. The exact cause of
Dakars sinking is not known. It was one of four mysterious submarine disappearances in 1968; the other being the French submarine
Minerve (S647), the
Soviet submarine K-129 and the US submarine
USS Scorpion (SSN-589).