With regard to the loss of Surcouf in a putative collision, I urge you to look at the loss of HMS M-1 in the English Channel in 1925. Like Surcouf, M-1 was a submarine cruiser, the difference being it had only one big gun in its turret (it may have been battleship-calibre, though). Britain's M-boats were direct descendants of the notorious K-boats, another evolutionary dead end submarines passed through during the inter-war years. The K-boats were intended to sail with the main fleet and keep up with them, before diving to attack in a general engagement and thus, in order to keep pace with surface warships, the K-boats were steam-powered, There's a few good videos on RUclips explaining what a horrible idea the K-boats were, but the M-boats inherited the remaining hulls when production ceased. M-1 became a submarine cruiser and M-2 became a seaplane carrier. I don't know off-hand what madness befell M-3, but it was probably on a par with the other two. Anyway, M-1 was lost with all hands while on a training patrol and was suspected to have been rammed by the Swedish steamer SS Vidar, which reported striking an underwater object and, when drydocked, was found to have damage to her bow and forward keel. The damage was actually quite minor and was easily fixed, hence why people for a long time had trouble believing Vidar did indeed sink M-1. However, when M-1's wreck was discovered in 1999 it was found that the turret was detached and was lying upside down on the seabed directly adjacent to the hull. The only way it could have ended up like that, it was theorized, was as a result of an impact, which lent credence to the Vidar theory. The 1999 investigation demonstrated that the turret was M-1's real Achilles heel, a weak spot on the deck that, if breached underwater, would lead to catastrophic flooding because, just like Surcouf, its ammunition storage hoist ran vertically from the magazine at the bottom of the hull up a shaft to the turret and there were no watertight doors or cut-offs to close it in the event of a breach. It's surmised that Vidar struck the submerged M-1 a glancing blow that was just enough to knock the turret off its mountings and let the water flood in, causing M-1 to be destabilized and to roll over in the direction of the turret, which then fully snapped off as a result of the forces acting on it as it sank, and the two came to rest on the seabed side by side at a depth of around 250ft. It seems there were some survivors in a rear compartment but there was no way to rescue them because the Admiralty didn't know for several days that M-1 had been lost and there was no escape equipment on board capable of supporting an ascent from that depth. When the wreck of M-1 was surveyed a rear deck hatch was found to have been opened from the inside. The escaping crewmen's bodies were never found.
@@DarrenWalley -Poor bastards - either running out of oxygen inside the sub like the Russian Kursk, or not being able to reach the surface when escaping through the opened hatch.
The Surcouf was an "improvement" on a previous British design, the M-boats, of which three were built and at least two were lost in accidents. The submarine cruiser concept was inherently unviable due to the compromises that had to be made in order to get them to "work".
Well Australia is paying for the pleasure of refurbishment of the USA submarine ship yards after our LNP government stuffed up the order of French su try yo converted their nuclear sub in to diesel electric sub
The naval treaties limited the number of 8in armed ships but they didn't limit the number of submarines. English and French thought they could game the system but someone should have thought having the rangefinder so low and only having 2 shots per broadside makes 8-inch guns quite pointless.
I love the silly rumors about what happened to the sub. At my home, there are persistent tales that a WWii German Submarine used to slip into the Bay of St. Louis (just off the Gulf of Mexico, near New Orleans) and a local store owner replenishing all their food stocks for a high profit. I have heard this for 50 years. The problem with this story is that the Bay is only 7 feet deep !!! The family of the old store owner did not discourage this tale, seeing the silliness as great fun.
That would put a bit of a crimp on the tale. Although to be fair, the tale could have been misunderstood over time, and that the German crew used inflatables to get ashore, ie the CREW went into the bay, but their submarine did not. It's an unlikely tale, but not impossible.
“… Persistent tales… replenishing…stocks…For 50 years “ As in this happens routinely? Because those men would be over 100 years old now. Living in a submarine.😂
@@Acer_Maximinus I think he just means it suposedly happened during the war, and he's heard the stories for 50 years, but your version would make an awesome story.
I think the captain just tapped his heels together said "Theres no place like home" before Scotty beamed the whole sub up. Now there whalers on the moon they carry their harpoons but there ain't no whales so they tell tall tales and sing their whaling tune.
I can just imagine the Germans arriving at the refit base, and quietly telling the French to slip away just to be able to laugh more at the Allies misfortunes.
I know you’ve already did a video on Nagato’s wreck, but could we see a video on Nagato herself? Mostly, general consensus at the battle off Samar seems to be that she missed all her shots, but naval historian Robert Lundgren has proven otherwise. She hit USS Hoel with a 16.1-inch shell to her bow during her torpedo attack, and later alongside Yamato raked Hoel with gunfire, hitting her with both her main and secondary guns, helping to send her to the ocean floor.
Design Team: "Monsieur, which is more important.... torpedo's or a brig for 40 men" Naval Command: "...they will surrender in droves when they see this. Let's go with the brig but put in lots of tubes so we look serious. Besides we have our 8 inch guns... torpedo's are so overrated." Naval Command 20 minutes later: "...ummm, by chance do we have room for a plane?" Design Team: "...hmmm, I guess, but wouldn't you rather have more torpedo's?" Naval Command: "NO, WE DON'T WANT ANYMORE TORPEDO'S."
just throwing this out there, when I was a kid my Dad knew some guys who had been into scuba diving back in the 70s in New England. This guy swore that they saw this sub, which was later demolished, during a "training" mission. The theory was that the sub was either helping Germans, or the navy wasn't sure and sunk it, then to avoid controversy, nobody ever mentioned it. I have no idea, at this point its just a rumor from some guys who are now most likely dead from old age anyway.
the aircraft whe see at 9.06 is not a autogiro but a Breguet contra rotative rotors helicopter prototype, so called Gyroplane, like the 1934 Breguet Dorand Gyroplane laboratoire...
@Skynae history: I was hoping you were going to say that they finally found it, but I'm glad you did a video because most people don't know about this sub.
Of course no real idea at all but my guess her sinking was alot more simple.. an experienced crew and during a diving drill someone left a hatch or valve open and she flooded and sunk.
My father was on PC 1086. They had to do target fire with their 3 inch gun at an island. The Atlantic was so rough they could not hit the island! The PC was a very unstable craft, but it did carry debt charges and could chase submarines around which they did. The captain of the PC was very disgusted and called the whole thing off.
The photo is "from a Japanese production"? You mean the Japanese made a movie about Surcouf? Or did the Japanese build their own version of a sub with a big gun turret similar to Surcouf during the War?
There also a claim the Sub was lost when according to report a Mine in the canal zone approaches. There also a good chance the Surcouf may have been damaged by the ram but then hit a german floating mine. They were reported in the area by other ships. There was also a large travel lane the sub was using that was basically a Stay in between the lines so air craft dont rip you apart thinking your a uboat. The theory is the ram damaged the radio as there no comms for help and they were located in the most exposed areas then a mine killed her engine and she drifted without means to alert anyone and the Planes though they had found a "milkcow" uboat.
Ive always had a soft spot for this sub. I doubt she would have performed very well in combat, but she was a masterful feat of engineering. Flawed concept but a unique design that likely would have been a potent weapon for WWI.
I just love all of the heavy criticism of this innovative boat, built in the 1920s in response to the restrictions of the Washington Treaty. How are all those Littoral Combat Ships working out for the US Navy? At least the French only built 1 Surcouf, there are 17 LCS, most sitting in port...what a wonderful waste of billions. The Japanese copied many of the features of the Surcouf for their I-400...I dont see anyone copying anything from the junk LCS.
My uncle served on that Sub. By the way the day that the British navy attacked the French fleet in Algiers a shoot out happend on board this Sub in a British port. 3 Brits and a Frenchman were killed.
@@MrJeepsters British Royal Marines boarded all Free French ships in England before the news of the attack got out. In case of trouble, and there was on the Sub.👎 when the French found out.
after the Martinique episode, an angry Churchill ("the heaviest cross I have to bear...is the Cross of Lorraine") wanted Surcouf and her Gaullist crew erased. She was and they were, by a Brit cruiser in Mid-Atlantic.
You want to find the Surcouf? Look for a missing enemy ship that should have been in the Surcouf patrol area. Triangulate where the two vessels would have likely met based on their last known position and typical cruising speed. It seems likely it was a battle to the death for both vessels, or one would have reported the kill of the other.
In early WW2 the Surcouff was posing as a Free French warship and was based as such at Bermuda's Royal Naval Dockyard. After her patrols allied shipping was disappearing, and it was realised that she was actually a pro Nazi Vichy French sub. She was sunk by US Navy warships.
She was taken to the other alternative Earth where the Destroyermen went to and was taken over by the League. She was then sunk by USS Walker DD163 in the Indian Ocean who were on their way to Madagascart to fight the Grik
A ship reported hitting a partially submerged object at a suitable location and time. The odds of this not being a collision with the Surcouf are extremely small.
What was the intended purpose of the submarine? If the guns couldn't traverse then they wouldn't be much good against ships however, if they intended to use it against sea ports etc, then it might well of been worthwhile. If a single gun was placed inside the main hull of the submarine with a large hatch to fire through then the gun could of been made watertight and the submarine wouldn't of been so top heavy. If aiming at towns and ports then accuracy wouldn't be as important. It's easy to look back and criticise ideas that didn't work out but current submarines are equipped with missiles to attack land targets and the Surcouf seems to be an experiment in that direction but just limited by the technology of it's time.
From the arrogant people that brought you the Maginot Line and the Citroen. How did that work out! Arrogant to this very day. At the D-day ceremony the British and other Allies were not given much credit and I didn’t see any of them speak.
She got sunk by stupidity it sounds like. I guess it's easy to blame Vichy spies when you don't want to acknowledge that you were hostile to a peaceful crew instead of having a conversation. Further not surprising that that crew wouldn't trust you and would choose to return home and leave you to flounder about on your own. It further makes sense that the British would have covered up any accidents involving this vessel because it would have been their fault. Even if it wasn't it's wartime so it's still not going to be widely reported. It's probably covered up after the fact because they know they had an unprepared crew and they knew why they had an unprepared crew and they knew if that information went public the French sailors would be like hold on a second. We were willing to help right up to the moment y'all started shooting at us .....
The French seem to dance to a different drum not unlike the Japanese. The French although very stylish with clothes and building just don't seem to get designing vehicles etc.
If I was running a country, I'd jail everyone who felt it was necessary to waste the country's time, space and money on this.... idiotic embarrassment. Just wow. Gives me more reason not to like the French.
With regard to the loss of Surcouf in a putative collision, I urge you to look at the loss of HMS M-1 in the English Channel in 1925. Like Surcouf, M-1 was a submarine cruiser, the difference being it had only one big gun in its turret (it may have been battleship-calibre, though). Britain's M-boats were direct descendants of the notorious K-boats, another evolutionary dead end submarines passed through during the inter-war years. The K-boats were intended to sail with the main fleet and keep up with them, before diving to attack in a general engagement and thus, in order to keep pace with surface warships, the K-boats were steam-powered, There's a few good videos on RUclips explaining what a horrible idea the K-boats were, but the M-boats inherited the remaining hulls when production ceased. M-1 became a submarine cruiser and M-2 became a seaplane carrier. I don't know off-hand what madness befell M-3, but it was probably on a par with the other two. Anyway, M-1 was lost with all hands while on a training patrol and was suspected to have been rammed by the Swedish steamer SS Vidar, which reported striking an underwater object and, when drydocked, was found to have damage to her bow and forward keel. The damage was actually quite minor and was easily fixed, hence why people for a long time had trouble believing Vidar did indeed sink M-1. However, when M-1's wreck was discovered in 1999 it was found that the turret was detached and was lying upside down on the seabed directly adjacent to the hull. The only way it could have ended up like that, it was theorized, was as a result of an impact, which lent credence to the Vidar theory. The 1999 investigation demonstrated that the turret was M-1's real Achilles heel, a weak spot on the deck that, if breached underwater, would lead to catastrophic flooding because, just like Surcouf, its ammunition storage hoist ran vertically from the magazine at the bottom of the hull up a shaft to the turret and there were no watertight doors or cut-offs to close it in the event of a breach. It's surmised that Vidar struck the submerged M-1 a glancing blow that was just enough to knock the turret off its mountings and let the water flood in, causing M-1 to be destabilized and to roll over in the direction of the turret, which then fully snapped off as a result of the forces acting on it as it sank, and the two came to rest on the seabed side by side at a depth of around 250ft. It seems there were some survivors in a rear compartment but there was no way to rescue them because the Admiralty didn't know for several days that M-1 had been lost and there was no escape equipment on board capable of supporting an ascent from that depth. When the wreck of M-1 was surveyed a rear deck hatch was found to have been opened from the inside. The escaping crewmen's bodies were never found.
Excellent comment mate.
I concur,
Makes sense
Oh my word, what a terrible story about those sailors.
Great piece of writing & thank you for sharing.
@@DarrenWalley -Poor bastards - either running out of oxygen inside the sub like the Russian Kursk, or not being able to reach the surface when escaping through the opened hatch.
It is said that "The French follow no one, and no one follows the French".....seems to work in this case
The Surcouf was an "improvement" on a previous British design, the M-boats, of which three were built and at least two were lost in accidents. The submarine cruiser concept was inherently unviable due to the compromises that had to be made in order to get them to "work".
Well Australia is paying for the pleasure of refurbishment of the USA submarine ship yards after our LNP government stuffed up the order of French su try yo converted their nuclear sub in to diesel electric sub
The naval treaties limited the number of 8in armed ships but they didn't limit the number of submarines. English and French thought they could game the system but someone should have thought having the rangefinder so low and only having 2 shots per broadside makes 8-inch guns quite pointless.
No one follows them because most don’t carry a white flag with them unlike the French.
Profound. Must have been said at 10pm in a British pub.
I love the silly rumors about what happened to the sub. At my home, there are persistent tales that a WWii German Submarine used to slip into the Bay of St. Louis (just off the Gulf of Mexico, near New Orleans) and a local store owner replenishing all their food stocks for a high profit. I have heard this for 50 years. The problem with this story is that the Bay is only 7 feet deep !!!
The family of the old store owner did not discourage this tale, seeing the silliness as great fun.
That would put a bit of a crimp on the tale.
Although to be fair, the tale could have been misunderstood over time, and that the German crew used inflatables to get ashore, ie the CREW went into the bay, but their submarine did not.
It's an unlikely tale, but not impossible.
I've heard rumors that a lone Jap sub fired on the California coast in 1941.
Germans didn't anticipate stopping why would they have American money. But they could have arrived in rubber boats.
“… Persistent tales… replenishing…stocks…For 50 years “
As in this happens routinely?
Because those men would be over 100 years old now.
Living in a submarine.😂
@@Acer_Maximinus I think he just means it suposedly happened during the war, and he's heard the stories for 50 years, but your version would make an awesome story.
a treaty none of the signatories like sounds like a success
I think the captain just tapped his heels together said "Theres no place like home" before Scotty beamed the whole sub up. Now there whalers on the moon they carry their harpoons but there ain't no whales so they tell tall tales and sing their whaling tune.
Address all complaints to the Monsanto corporation...
It would be incredible if and when the remains of the Surcouf are found.
I think she got sunk by mistaken identity.
Didn't she get put on convoy escort duty, that probably wouldn't end well. Drachinifel has a vid on this.
No, she was probably sunk with bombs.
I can just imagine the Germans arriving at the refit base, and quietly telling the French to slip away just to be able to laugh more at the Allies misfortunes.
I know you’ve already did a video on Nagato’s wreck, but could we see a video on Nagato herself?
Mostly, general consensus at the battle off Samar seems to be that she missed all her shots, but naval historian Robert Lundgren has proven otherwise. She hit USS Hoel with a 16.1-inch shell to her bow during her torpedo attack, and later alongside Yamato raked Hoel with gunfire, hitting her with both her main and secondary guns, helping to send her to the ocean floor.
Design Team: "Monsieur, which is more important.... torpedo's or a brig for 40 men"
Naval Command: "...they will surrender in droves when they see this. Let's go with the brig but put in lots of tubes so we look serious. Besides we have our 8 inch guns... torpedo's are so overrated."
Naval Command 20 minutes later: "...ummm, by chance do we have room for a plane?"
Design Team: "...hmmm, I guess, but wouldn't you rather have more torpedo's?"
Naval Command: "NO, WE DON'T WANT ANYMORE TORPEDO'S."
*torpedoes
Apostrophes are never used for the plural forms of words.
TY-I am guessing all those non-fatal explosions, and mishaps, stressed the hull so much she killed herself in a dive, but where?
Thanks, Skynea. Take care.
Was sunk by Tom Hanks in that horrendous movie
WIIIILLLLSON!!!!!
Shocking movie for sure. Wiilllssonn is long since drowned.
Are there any expeditions planned to attempt to find Surcouf?
Not that I’m aware of. It’s a difficult one to look for, even if you base a search off the collision and air attack locations.
What a kooky piece of engineering :)
Brilliant concept ....but stupid idea !!
Not really a theory but an observation: the ocean is a very big and hostile playground-putting to sea in an unstable boat is never a good idea.
Solved.
may it have inverted 180 degrees perhaps because of the top heavy configuration, that with the ballast etc. just a thought
It will never not be funny seeing a submarine with an oversized twin turret on it. It looks so ridiculous
That’s France for you…..
It's laugh and games untill this turret lifts from the water on short range from your vessel.
How did this make it off the drawing board?
Because it hadn't been done before. Flying machines were still a fairly new thing. M class subs were a British take on the idea.
just throwing this out there, when I was a kid my Dad knew some guys who had been into scuba diving back in the 70s in New England. This guy swore that they saw this sub, which was later demolished, during a "training" mission. The theory was that the sub was either helping Germans, or the navy wasn't sure and sunk it, then to avoid controversy, nobody ever mentioned it. I have no idea, at this point its just a rumor from some guys who are now most likely dead from old age anyway.
Applaud the effort.
Wow. The specification reads like something built by a Bond 007 film villain 😂
the aircraft whe see at 9.06 is not a autogiro but a Breguet contra rotative rotors helicopter prototype, so called Gyroplane, like the 1934 Breguet Dorand Gyroplane laboratoire...
Good catch
Autogyros are pretty cool.
But counter rotating helis like Russia has are pretty amazing aircraft
The U.S. Navy had their own cruiser subs. The Norwal and the Nautilus.
@Skynae history: I was hoping you were going to say that they finally found it, but I'm glad you did a video because most people don't know about this sub.
That's one goofy looking vessel 😅 Thanks for the video
Of course no real idea at all but my guess her sinking was alot more simple.. an experienced crew and during a diving drill someone left a hatch or valve open and she flooded and sunk.
It's like a Frankenstein of the seas
If they ever find the sub. It be an interesting discovery.
My father was on PC 1086. They had to do target fire with their 3 inch gun at an island. The Atlantic was so rough they could not hit the island! The PC was a very unstable craft, but it did carry debt charges and could chase submarines around which they did. The captain of the PC was very disgusted and called the whole thing off.
The photo is "from a Japanese production"? You mean the Japanese made a movie about Surcouf? Or did the Japanese build their own version of a sub with a big gun turret similar to Surcouf during the War?
There also a claim the Sub was lost when according to report a Mine in the canal zone approaches. There also a good chance the Surcouf may have been damaged by the ram but then hit a german floating mine. They were reported in the area by other ships. There was also a large travel lane the sub was using that was basically a Stay in between the lines so air craft dont rip you apart thinking your a uboat. The theory is the ram damaged the radio as there no comms for help and they were located in the most exposed areas then a mine killed her engine and she drifted without means to alert anyone and the Planes though they had found a "milkcow" uboat.
Ive always had a soft spot for this sub. I doubt she would have performed very well in combat, but she was a masterful feat of engineering. Flawed concept but a unique design that likely would have been a potent weapon for WWI.
you know that last image, I think I actually saw it in someone's video on aircraft carrying submarines... 😜 (just kidding, great job man!)
It all sounds like the sub was a waste of resources that would have been best laid up for the duration of the war
Thompson Lykes trying to be a secret carrier? 😅
never heard of this,
very interesting.
Never knew this ship existed.
Who knew all this happened? Apparently YOU And we appreciate it. Thank you for the video.
I just love all of the heavy criticism of this innovative boat, built in the 1920s in response to the restrictions of the Washington Treaty. How are all those Littoral Combat Ships working out for the US Navy? At least the French only built 1 Surcouf, there are 17 LCS, most sitting in port...what a wonderful waste of billions. The Japanese copied many of the features of the Surcouf for their I-400...I dont see anyone copying anything from the junk LCS.
She made it to Australia in 1942 where my father, a sailor in the RAN saw her.
No
My uncle served on that Sub.
By the way the day that the British navy attacked the French fleet in Algiers a shoot out happend on board this Sub in a British port.
3 Brits and a Frenchman were killed.
Aurait t-il coulé à Mers le Kebir ?
@@MrJeepsters
British Royal Marines boarded all Free French ships in England before the news of the attack got out.
In case of trouble, and there was on the Sub.👎 when the French found out.
I feel that Surcouf would have benefitted greatly from having a mortar installed instead of the 8" guns.
motar did not work on a moving plateform
Cool looking sub.
Awesome video!
after the Martinique episode, an angry Churchill ("the heaviest cross I have to bear...is the Cross of Lorraine") wanted Surcouf and her Gaullist crew erased. She was and they were, by a Brit cruiser in Mid-Atlantic.
Except it wasn’t….. 🙄
@davidluck1678 What enjoyment do you get out of lying like this? I just don't get it.
You want to find the Surcouf? Look for a missing enemy ship that should have been in the Surcouf patrol area. Triangulate where the two vessels would have likely met based on their last known position and typical cruising speed. It seems likely it was a battle to the death for both vessels, or one would have reported the kill of the other.
In early WW2 the Surcouff was posing as a Free French warship and was based as such at Bermuda's Royal Naval Dockyard. After her patrols allied shipping was disappearing, and it was realised that she was actually a pro Nazi Vichy French sub. She was sunk by US Navy warships.
One of the “weirdest and worst” ships.
HMS Captain is probably going to wear the crown of worst ship for a good while yet.
There's something just cool about a submarine with big guns on the front, is it practical? No, but it is pretty darn cool
She was taken to the other alternative Earth where the Destroyermen went to and was taken over by the League. She was then sunk by USS Walker DD163 in the Indian Ocean who were on their way to Madagascart to fight the Grik
The same people who took this boat are the same ones that operate the tic tac UFOs right now 😂
It looks like some thing from the US civil war
I think that the fate of this sub is referred to in the book Far Aft and Faintly..
I'd imagine the RV petrel is keeping an eye out for her
A ship reported hitting a partially submerged object at a suitable location and time. The odds of this not being a collision with the Surcouf are extremely small.
i known this , but the small size from the hit object did absolutly not fit with the Surcouf who is massive
@@leneanderthalien Look at the sinking of the broadly-similar British submarine M1.
I was always told she submerged to fire her main guns - the muzzle above water obviously
What was the intended purpose of the submarine? If the guns couldn't traverse then they wouldn't be much good against ships however, if they intended to use it against sea ports etc, then it might well of been worthwhile. If a single gun was placed inside the main hull of the submarine with a large hatch to fire through then the gun could of been made watertight and the submarine wouldn't of been so top heavy. If aiming at towns and ports then accuracy wouldn't be as important. It's easy to look back and criticise ideas that didn't work out but current submarines are equipped with missiles to attack land targets and the Surcouf seems to be an experiment in that direction but just limited by the technology of it's time.
That is so weird looking-a sub with a turret
It'll be found eventually, just like the French fry we find years later under the mattress.
*"The Goof" is a better name for this sub/ship.*
Battle cruisers are the best old school naval ship imo xD 12 inch guns that can go 60kph+
Good grief !! What a dumpster fire!
From the arrogant people that brought you the Maginot Line and the Citroen. How did that work out! Arrogant to this very day. At the D-day ceremony the British and other Allies were not given much credit and I didn’t see any of them speak.
"I never realized what mean guys those Vichy French are"
(paraphrasing a kung fu movie)
Not that mysterious, really. It was an experimental hull, and due to recent events we all know how quickly things can go wrong with experimental subs.
Interesting.
It had to have survived much longer. How else could it have spirited Adolf off to South America in 1945?
Hitler rode a V2 rocket to S America.
The end of Dr. Strangelove was inspired by it, except Adolf was riding it sidesaddle
Goodness sounds like it had a sitdown restaurant and a starbucks
Looks like a boss out of a Metal Slug game lmao
The Brits dodged the Washington Treaty by forcing their Commonwealth navies (Australia, Canada, New Zealand) to ditch their larger ships
No they didn’t 🙄
It flipped over underwater because the turret was too heavy. Who knows.
I wonder if they found a way of replenishing her torpedoes with british or american manufactured ones
Has no one thought this Is the dumbest sub design ever seen? It capsized itself and sank.
The French built such UGLY ships. The SUCCOTH was one of them.
She got sunk by stupidity it sounds like. I guess it's easy to blame Vichy spies when you don't want to acknowledge that you were hostile to a peaceful crew instead of having a conversation. Further not surprising that that crew wouldn't trust you and would choose to return home and leave you to flounder about on your own. It further makes sense that the British would have covered up any accidents involving this vessel because it would have been their fault. Even if it wasn't it's wartime so it's still not going to be widely reported. It's probably covered up after the fact because they know they had an unprepared crew and they knew why they had an unprepared crew and they knew if that information went public the French sailors would be like hold on a second. We were willing to help right up to the moment y'all started shooting at us .....
I’m here because of azur lane also can’t they check her last known location on the map on her Wikipedia page?
It was scuttled in Bounty Bay.
It did a backstroke to the seafloor after being hit by friendly fire. 🤣🤣
Under water mine took it out.
Legend has it, Captain Nemo is still cruising around in his submarine...
Whoever thought this was a good idea was in the wrong committee 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Why? Do you know what a submarine is?
It looks top heavy.
Why do we need 2 8" guns?
Captain"
Turbo boosters.
What in the hell was somebody smoking when they designed this thing?
The French seem to dance to a different drum not unlike the Japanese. The French although very stylish with clothes and building just don't seem to get designing vehicles etc.
Dassault Rafale. Something more?
Aliens 👽 came down and brought it into space and turned it into a spaceship. 😆😆😆😆
Her design in Azur Lane is just absolute perfection.
It seems like a lousy experiment
Can't blame them, each country was trying to find loop holes with the naval treaty and they each had their own problems.
@@Hardcase_Kara True, but the Sub was obviously top heavy and had poor sea keeping characteristics.
The British should have seized and operated all the French equipment they had, since they couldn’t trust their loyalty towards the allies……..!!!!!!
The design was way too top heavy, too many things could went wrong and the design sank fast
This French monstrosity had everything but a McDonald's playland.
which super-villains bought these?
If I was running a country, I'd jail everyone who felt it was necessary to waste the country's time, space and money on this.... idiotic embarrassment.
Just wow.
Gives me more reason not to like the French.
Has anyone looked for her?
As a nerd 55cm= about 21.7” not 22”.
It sank. Mystery solved.
an overweight unwanted foster child ,bounced from home to home then outa the house he goes,,again
Submarine built in the 1920s. Mystery solved.
Substandard design. 😂