S/S Ulua-Chaim Arlosoroff, British intelligence, and Mossad at the Mediterranean.
British intelligence started to follow S/S Ulua already on its way to Sweden from Marseille, France. When in Denmark British intelligence tried to stop the ship by informing the Port Authorities in Copenhagen harbor that it was a slave ship to transport white whores or similar.
When S/S Ulua left Denmark for Sweden it chose another port to pick up Swedish Ma´apilim, Trelleborg port was chosen instead of Gothenburg. Later, after the departure from Sweden. when S/S Ulua arrived in Le Havre at the end of February 1947 at the insistence of the British Embassy, the boat was prevented from leaving on the basis that she was unseaworthy to carry so many passengers. The commander on board, Arieh Eliav (25 y.), telephoned the Mossad office in Paris, requesting help to get the ship to be released. Thereafter, the maritime direction in Le Havre port issued a seaworthiness certificate for the boat and Ulua was able to continue her journey. The ship at the end of February reached the beach Terento (February 21st) close to the port of Metaponto, Italy. At the beach, Terento the Holocaust survivors were taken on board during the night and using rubber boats. Thus, instead of going to the port of Metaponto the the authorities might try to stop the ship. 684 additional Ma´apilims (75% men) on board. Previously it had 644 Maápilim from Sweden (550 of them were women.) There were a total of 1384 immigrants on board when leaving Italy.
To fool the British again, S/S Ulua sailed from the beach Terento to the Turkish coast through the North of Rhodes to Port Said in Egypt and first from there north along the coast at Gaza and Ashkelon to avoid the British warships patrolling close to the ports of Jaffa and Haifa. However, the British reconnaissance aircraft spotted S/S Ulua on February 27th, about 60 km from Port Said, Egypt. Five destroyers joined it, and the Haim Arlosoroff continued sailing towards the Gulf of Haifa. The crew of Ulua, now renamed to Haim Arlosoroff managed to fool the destroyers and crash the ship on the rocks of Bet Galim, near Haifa. Unfortunately, this last event occurred opposite a British military base and Casino there. Almost all passengers were imprisoned by the British and transferred on British Navy prison ships to the detention camps on Cyprus..
