Surcouf was a large French gun-armed cruiser submarine of the mid 20th century. She carried two 203 mm guns as well as anti-aircraft guns and (for most of her career) a floatplane. Surcouf served in the French Navy and, later, the Free French Naval …

2022年5月31日 · The Surcouf, the largest (and strangest) submarine on the Allied side during WW2, mysteriously disappeared in 1942. What happened to her and where is she now?

If any real-life vessel fit that description, it was the French World War II submarine Surcouf. During her abortive wartime career, Surcouf displayed all the ghostly, rumor-generating characteristics of the Flying Dutcman.

2023年5月3日 · Critical to the Free French naval fleet, the submarine Surcouf disappeared in the middle of World War II. No one knows what happened to her.

THE FIRST INSTALLMENT of this article described the strange set of circumstances which brought the giant French submarine SURCOUF in 1940 to England and then to America before taking part in the liberation of the North American French colony at St. Pierre and Miquelon.

2015年8月28日 · The mystery of how the record breaking French submarine Surcouf sunk has been debated since the day it disappeared in the Pacific, near Tahiti. Was her and the 130-strong crew blitzed out of existence by the enemy or was something more sinister at play?

2022年1月20日 · Underwater submarine cruiser Surcouf (From the French Naval Web Site) The submarine cruiser Surcouf was the result of squadron submarine projects that have been studied at length since the end of the First World War.

Surcouf [syʁ.kuf] was a large French gun-armed cruiser submarine of the mid 20th century. She carried two 203 mm guns as well as anti-aircraft guns and (for most of her career) a floatplane. Surcouf served in the French Navy and, later, the Free French Naval Forces during the …

In the annals of naval history, few vessels have captured the imagination like the French submarine Surcouf. Named after the legendary privateer Robert Surcouf, this massive submarine was not just an engineering marvel but a symbol of French naval innovation.

2013年2月18日 · Named after a 19th century French privateer captain, the Surcouf was intended to be deployed as a submersible raider with the capability of shelling shore targets, merchant ships and unsuspecting surface warships and then sneaking away while submerged.