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Surcouf
(N N 3) was a French submarine ordered to be built
in December 1927, launched on 18 October 1929, and
commissioned in May 1934. Surcouf—named after
the French privateer Robert Surcouf—was the largest
submarine ever built until surpassed by the Japanese
I-400s. Her short wartime career was marked with controversy
and conspiracy theories.
Like so much else about Surcouf, there are alternate
stories of her end. Disregarding the predictable ones
about her being swallowed by the Bermuda Triangle,
one of the most popular is that she was caught in Long
Island Sound refueling a German U-boat, and both submarines
were sunk, either by the American submarines USS Mackerel
and Marlin,[11] or a United States Coast Guard blimp.
Many stories add that much of the gold from the French
Treasury was in Surcouf's large cargo compartment,
and that the wreck was found and entered in 1967 by
Jacques Cousteau.
This is her story!
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