Tango01  | 03 Jul 2013 9:15 p.m. PST |
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| Big Martin Back | 04 Jul 2013 5:02 a.m. PST |
One hell of a "boat" – another one in the strange "submarine monitor" idea. |
ScottWashburn  | 04 Jul 2013 7:29 a.m. PST |
The USS Argonaut, USS Narwhal, and USS Nautilus were almost exactly the same size as Surcouf. All saw action in the Pacific during WWII. link |
| Lone Eagle | 04 Jul 2013 7:42 a.m. PST |
I fell in love with that sub when I first heard about it when I was in an RC combat club. I have the fiberglass hull for it and was in the process of building and arming it for combat when the club folded. For the cannons it was going to fire ¼" ball bearings from both barrels and I was going to have the turret rotate. It was going to be extremely slow but with most of the penetrable area being under water it would be extremely difficult to hit and sink it. It would have been a whole lot of fun to run. |
| Mallen | 05 Jul 2013 4:16 a.m. PST |
Maybe you could use it for duck hunting. |
| spontoon | 05 Jul 2013 3:33 p.m. PST |
Wasn't the Surcouf lost to a leak in the hangar doors? |
| zippyfusenet | 05 Jul 2013 5:36 p.m. PST |
The screen door was a weak point in the design. |
| capncarp | 05 Jul 2013 6:13 p.m. PST |
AFAIK, the Surcouf is suspected to have succumbed to an accidental ramming in the southwestern corner of the Caribbean Sea. A merchant ship, IIRC, reported hitting a submerged object in the area where the Surcouf had been patrolling. Pretty sorry end for a warship. Poor bastiches never even had a chance to deploy their emergency surrender beacon! |
| Stavka | 06 Jul 2013 6:52 p.m. PST |
The Surcouf was in the service of the Free French at the time of her loss. These tiresome "surrender" jokes never grow old for some people, don't they? |
BlackWidowPilot  | 06 Jul 2013 10:17 p.m. PST |
Poor bastiches never even had a chance to deploy their emergency surrender beacon!
Clearly the poilus that rendered 101,000 *German* soldats battle casualties during the French Campaign didn't get the memo about any surrender beacon…
Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net |
| D for Dubious | 10 Jul 2013 7:33 a.m. PST |
"Wasn't the Surcouf lost to a leak in the hangar doors?" That's likely the British M2 lost in the twenties that you are thinking of. She is believed to have been lost because they started opening the hanger door before she'd finished surfacing |
