French minesweeper Surprise

History
France
Name: Surprise
Builder: Arsenal de Lorient[1]
Launched: 17 June 1939[1]
Out of service: 8 November 1942[1]
Fate: Sunk by gunfire[1]
General characteristics
Type: Chamois-class aviso
Displacement:
  • 647 tonnes (637 long tons) standard[2]
  • 900 tonnes (886 long tons) full[2]
Length:
  • 78.30 m (256 ft 11 in) o/a[2]
  • 73.81 m (242 ft 2 in) p/p[2]
Beam: 8.70 m (28 ft 7 in)[2]
Draught: 3.28 m (10 ft 9 in)[2]
Propulsion: 2 × Sulzer diesel engines, 4,600 hp (3,430 kW), 2 shafts[2]
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)[2]
Range:
  • 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)
  • 5,200 nautical miles (9,600 km; 6,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
  • 3,000 nautical miles (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)[3]
  • Fuel capacity: 105 tonnes[3]
Complement:
  • 88 in peacetime;[3]
  • 104 or 106 at war[3]
Armament:

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.[1] and she was commissioned in March 1940.

On 8 November 1942 the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Brilliant sank Surprise by gunfire off Oran,[1] French Algeria, during Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Le Masson 1969, p. 22.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Le Masson 1969, p. 16.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Le Masson 1969, p. 17.

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