Cherbourg Project

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Cherbourg Project
The route of the boats from Cherbourg to Israel
Location	CMN Shipyard, Cherbourg, France
Planned by	Rear Admiral Mordechai Limon
Objective	Extract five embargoed Sa'ar 3-class missile boats and sail them to Haifa, Israel
Date	24 December 1969 (1969-12-24)
Executed by	Israeli Navy  Israeli Air Force
Outcome	Successful extraction

The Cherbourg Project (or Boats of Cherbourg) was an Israeli military operation that took place on 24 December 1969 and involved the escape of five remaining armed Sa'ar 3 class boats from the French port of Cherbourg (Cherbourg-Octeville since 2000, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin since 2016). The boats had been paid for by the Israeli government but had not been delivered due to the French arms embargo in 1969. The operation was planned by the Israeli Navy, and was codenamed Operation Noa, after the daughter of Captain Binyamin "Bini" Telem.^[1]