Name Surprise Out of service 8 November 1942 Type Chamois-class aviso Draft 3.28 m | Builder Arsenal de Lorient Fate Sunk by gunfire Launched 17 June 1939 | |
Displacement 647 tonnes (637 long tons) standard
900 tonnes (886 long tons) full | ||
Surprise (or La Surprise) was a World War II French Navy Chamois-class aviso. Arsenal de Lorient in Brittany launched her on 17 June 1939. and she was commissioned in March 1940.
On 8 November 1942 the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Brilliant sank Surprise by gunfire off Oran, French Algeria, during Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa.
References
French minesweeper Surprise Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA