An insignificant cargo, perhaps, in terms of a major war, but its value to the F.L.N. can be appreciated when it is recorded that, up to that date, it possessed no more than twenty mortars and ten machine-guns throughout the country. The Athos cargo represented the biggest arms shipment yet to the F.L.N.; by far the greatest significance attached to it, however, was that it was the first major Egyptian arms delivery to the F.L.N.

XREF: Context on FLN's arms scarcity — only twenty mortars and ten machine-guns countrywide — makes this shipment strategically pivotal despite its modest size.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 483