A situation, given the always volatile context in the middle east, that might repeat in the future.įrom humble beginnings in WW2 (sporting a few armed trawler for ASW patrols), the The South African Navy grew to a sizeable green water navy, operating ASW Frigates and conventional submarines, plus missile-armed, state of the art fast attack crafts for closer defense in the 1980s despite a relative international isolation.
This was showcased between the construction of the Suez canal (inaugurated 1869) and demonstrated again during its closure from October 1956 until March 1957, and moreover at the beginning of the Six-Day War and for eight years, from 5 June 1967, up to 5 June 1975, which obliged the construction of supertankers needed to round the cape to Asia and Back, as most of the merchant traffic. Foreword: Since it’s official creation in 1922, the SAF (South African Navy, with “Defense” added more recently) always possessed a strategic role by its location, an obligatory passage between the Atlantic and Indian Ocean and at large, Asia.
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