125. Arba Cheruyot — Fede
type: m/v
Departed Italy 23 Aug 1946, arrived 2 Sep 1946
ex-Fede, built 1946, 512 gross tons, motor vessel (see No.113)
1024 passengers
Second trip made by Fede. Captured by destroyers Childers and Chivalrous. The boarding was the first to be strongly resisted, and two drowned by jumping off the ship. Passengers included 300 women of whom half were pregnant, and 200 children.
Name means “Four Freedoms.”
Photograph source: Haganah Archives
Arba Cheruyot