From 1967, Félix Amiot diversified CMN's offerings with Fast Attack Crafts with a wood-cored laminated hull. The incident that marked the beginning of a new class of fast attack craft in shipbuilding - La Combattante I, was the sinking of the Israeli destroyer INS Eilat on October 21, 1967 by two Egyptian Komar missile boats, as she sailed in international waters off Port Said.Rabinovich, Abraham, The Boats of Cherbourg Henry Holt and Co., New York, NY, 1988, , p. 5.
