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GV Sailors standing in file for trooping of the colour
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CU Sadat saluting
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SV Sailors marching with flags
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SCU & SV Sadat pinning medals to flag
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GV Sadat in launch pulling out to view ships
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SV Sadat arrives on deck and salutes officers
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SV Sadat reviews guard of honour on deck (3 shots)
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Background: Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and leading members of his Cabinet visited the port of Alexandria on Monday (24 June) to pay tribute to the part played by the Egyptian navy in the Middle East conflict last October.

The President attended a special ceremony and handed out gallantry awards. He was greeted with a 21 gun salute and fanfare of ships' sirens.

In a brief speech, he said the battle against Israel would not be over until all occupied territories were liberated. He saluted the "Syrian brothers" and all other Arab countries which fought side by side with the Egyptians or helped the Egyptian war effort.

After the ceremonies ashore, the President and his party boarded a luxury launch which took them to the waiting destroyer, "Suez", in Alexandria harbour.

Then for almost two hours, the President reviewed the Egyptian fleet, which put on a spectacular "Sailpast". While the President watched from the bridge, troop carriers, submarines, destroyers, and torpedo and missile boats sailed by. Helicopters and jet fighters flew overhead.

President Sadat -- dressed in naval whites -- reportedly looked fit and relaxed. He hatted with the officers of the "Suez" and was obviously well informed about the facts and figures of the vessels which passed in review.