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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 Forces during the Second World War.
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?
By William H. Langenberg. The legendary Flying Dutchman of maritime lore was a spectral ship of disastrous portent that haunted the high seas and endangered anyone who came into contact with it. If any real-life vessel fit that description, it was the French World War II submarine Surcouf.
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.
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.
Eventually taken over by Free French forces, the mammoth submarine sank after a nighttime collision with an American cargo ship in the Caribbean around February 18, 1942, though conspiracy theories of nefarious American action abound.
The mystery of how the record-breaking French submarine Surcouf sunk has been debated since the day it disappeared in the Pacific, near Tahiti. Were she and her 130-strong crew blitzed out of existence by the enemy or was something more sinister at play?
Surcouf, The Ultimate Interwar Cruiser Submarine. When it was launched in 1929, the French cruiser submarine FS Surcouf (NN-3) was without parallel in the World, and remained the largest and most heavily armed until the final years of World War Two.
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.
Surcouf (Capitaine De Fregate Georges Louis Nicolas Blaison) was sunk on 18 February 1942 in the Gulf of Mexico in position 10º40'N, 79º31'W after a collision with the American merchant ship Thomson Lykes.