French aviso La Surprise explained
La Surprise was a
World War II French Navy . Arsenal de
Lorient in
Brittany launched her on 17 June 1939. and she was commissioned in March 1940.
[1] On 8 November 1942 the Royal Navy destroyer sank La Surprise by gunfire off Oran, French Algeria, during Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa.
Sources
- Book: Le Masson, Henri . 1969 . Navies of the Second World War . The French Navy . 2 . London . MacDonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. . 9780356023847 .
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: La Surprise . uboat.net . 4 January 2020.
