Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)

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Never got round to reading Stranded in the Suez Canal? That day, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered 14 cargo ships from 8 nations that were travelling through the Suez Canal to halt. The 14 ships came from 8 nations on both sides of the Iron Curtain: from the West, four British ships, a French ship, two West German ships and an American ship, plus two from neutral Sweden.

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