Surprise (or La Surprise) was a World War II French Navy Chamois-class aviso. Arsenal de Lorient in Brittany launched her on 17 June 1939. and she was commissioned on March 1940.[citation needed] On 8 November 1942 the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Brilliant (H84) sank Surprise by gunfire off Oran during Operation Torch, the joint UK – American invasion of French North Africa.
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