WW2 - Surcouf Submarine of the Free French Navy
WW2 - Surcouf Submarine of the Free French Navy. The largest submarine ever built until surpassed by the first Japanese I-400-class submarine in 1943. Classified as an "undersea cruiser" by sources of her time. She carried a Besson MB.411 observation floatplane in a hangar built abaft of the conning tower - photoraph taken circa 1936 (the radio masts were removed by 1938)
Picture No
10999055
Media ID
46675984
Size
5333px x 3346px
(2.5MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1936
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