Lebanese Navy

Lebanese Navy
القوات البحرية اللبنانية
Flag of the Lebanese Navy
Founded	1950
Country	Lebanon
Type	Navy
Size	1,700 personnel 64 Watercraft Interceptors: 24 Patrol: 29 Gun Boats: 8 Landing Crafts: 2 Scientific Boat: 1
Part of	Lebanese Armed Forces
Headquarters	Beirut Naval Base
Engagements	1958 Lebanon crisis The War over Water Six-Day War Lebanese Civil War Battle of the Hotels Hundred Days' War Multinational Force in Lebanon 1982–1984 Mountain War War of the Camps United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (1978–present)[1] Operation Dinnieh Global War on Terrorism (2001- Present) Operation Benin 2006 Lebanon War Operation Nahr el Bared 2008 conflict in Lebanon 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash 2013 Sidon clash Hanikra border clash Battle of Arsal North Lebanon Clashes (2014)
Website	Official website
Commanders
Current commander	Captain Haitham Dannaoui
Insignia
Emblem
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The Lebanese Navy (Arabic: القوات البحرية اللبنانية, romanized: Al-qūwātu al-Baḥriyya al-Lubnāniyya, lit. 'the Lebanese Sea Forces') is the navy of the Lebanese Armed Forces. It was formed in 1950 and based in Beirut Naval Base, Lebanon's first naval base. The navy, which currently lacks the proper amount of equipment, has a number of approximately 69 vessels of various sizes and roles; however, the navy is trying to modernize itself, and increase its size. The flag of the Lebanese navy depicts a Phoenician ship with the Lebanese Cedar tree, positioned on an anchor above the Arabic inscription of the navy's name.

The Lebanese government approved on January 16, 2009, a request by the Lebanese Ministry of Defense to build a new naval base on the shores of Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.^[2]