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	Quotes - Robert Surcouf
		Surcouf was born in December 1773 in Saint-Malo, a fortified town in Britanny, traditionally a corsaire stronghold.
		Surcouf was made a second officer of the frigate Cybèle, which, with another frigate and a brig, and with less than half their firepower, engaged and repelled the attackers.
		Surcouf, however, refused, for two reasons: first, he would not have been allowed to operate as independently as he desired, and second, he believed that the war against England should be waged with economic means (i.e.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /AAVSO1604/robert-surcouf-quotes.html (1183 words)

	French submarine Surcouf
		During the first years of World War II, Surcouf was a French submarine ordered to be built in December 1927, launched 18 October 1929, and commissioned May 1934.
		Surcouf was designed as an "underwater cruiser," intended to seek and engage in surface combat.
		It is documented, however, that in that month, the Free French decided to send Surcouf to the Pacific theater of war, and she put in to Bermuda for resupply.
	ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fr/French_submarine_Surcouf.html (976 words)

	French Navy Encyclopedia Article @ Movies0.com (Movies 0) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Frigate division of the French Navy in Emile Bertin harbour
		French naval authorities were divided on their response: Amiral Ranks in the French Army, the commander of the Forces de Haute Mer (the High Seas Fleet) advocated sailing to attack the Allied invasion fleet while others, such as the Vichy Secretary of the Navy, submarine-launched ballistic missile favoured joining the Allies.
		The orders to French commanders to scuttle their ships in case of an attempted take-over had been reinforced, however, and, often despite the presence of German troops, this was done, in the List of Naval Ministers of France.
	www.movies0.com /encyclopedia/French_Navy (2749 words)

	frigate: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
		The term "frigate" was used in the seventeenth century, initially to describe a type of small, long, warship with small armament and a large crew used by Dunkirk for short-range raiding in the channel.
		The term "frigate" passed out of use in the mid-19th century and was readopted during World War II by the British Royal Navy to describe a new type of anti-submarine escort vessel that was larger than a corvette, but smaller than a destroyer.
		The frigate was introduced to remedy some of the shortcomings inherent in the corvette design, namely limited armament, a hull form not suited to open ocean work, a single shaft which limited speed and manouverability, and a lack of range.
	proxies.gr /nph-proxy.cgi/010110A/http/www.answers.com/topic/frigate (2938 words)

	Frigate information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Early frigates were armed with 9-pounder (4 kg) guns, development soon led to 12- and 18-pounder (5 and 8 kg) armed frigates, and at the turn of the century the biggest ones even carried 24 pounder (11 kg) main batteries.
		The term "frigate" would lie mostly unused until after the Second World War, when it would be reappropriated to describe ships that during that war had been called destroyer escorts.
		The term "frigate" passed out of use in the mid-19th century and was readopted during World War II by the British to describe an anti-submarine escort vessel larger than a corvette but smaller than a destroyer.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Frigate (1942 words)

	SuperFrenchie » Annoying Frenchies?
		Well, the name of the frigate on which he traveled was “l’Hermione”, a boat that sank unceremoniously on September 20, 1793 off the coast of Brittany.
		The French Belem (on which I sailed on for a week as a child!!) was not built as a man-o-war, thus has no cannons and can sail where she pleases.
		Just because the French were investing in China, trying to carve their own niche in this huge market, pursuing their own agenda, Americans reflexively will understand it as another attempt of the French to undermine their own effort… It’s beyond reasonning, beyond all sensitivity.
	superfrenchie.com /?p=225 (2755 words)

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		french stratege doggtag : exemple French Surcouf 8/20/2005 5:45:33 PM I agree completely.You don't need to go deep as a pure sub so the pressured hull would be lighter and use maybe less costly steel allowing the submersible to go to 150 meter depth only vs 600 for better SSN.
		In preWW2 French has design a submersible cruiser, the 3500 tons Surcouf with 2 203 mm guns turret and a flying boat for reco and bombing.I could imagine a 5000 tons SSK with 150 m max depth, 11 knts submerged with AIP, 18 knts with electric and 28 knts in surface.
		A one-on-one between an ASW frigate with short-ranged ASW torps (have to figure in the detection range being minimal) and a submersible armed with long-range ASMs and torps is awfully risky for one frigate, especially if the sub-ship goes on the aggressive.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/8-7709.aspx (4179 words)

	Trivia - Robert Surcouf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The phrase A man fights for what he lacks the most is said by captain Red in Polanskys Pirates.
		The manoeuver consisting in setting up a decoy a night by planting a lantern on a small boat was executed by Surcouf to successfully escape the British frigate HMS Sybille.
		Surcouf happened to be a descendant of Duguay-Trouin on the side of his mother.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /AAVSO1604/robert-surcouf-trivia.html (86 words)

	Bermuda's ties with France
		A French knight, the Sieur de la Motte, was in Virginia in 1614 and attended the wedding in April that year of John Rolfe, one of the survivors in Bermuda in 1609-10 of the "Sea Venture", to Princess Pocahontas.
		The earlier disappearance of the officer was recalled and it was assumed that in 1775 he came upon the scene, while honoring his parole, as the gunpowder robbery was in progress; was mistaken for a British officer in the dark and murdered; then buried hastily on the Governor's doorstep.
		An official joint U.S. and Free French report stated that she left Bermuda on 12 February and was accidentally rammed and sunk, with the accident due to both vessels running at night with no lights because of the menace of German U-boats.
	www.bermuda-online.org /france.htm (6676 words)

	surcouf SURCOUF
		Surcouf, le spécialiste de l'informatique : matériels, logiciels...
		Surcouf, le specialiste de l informatique : materiels, logiciels...
		The Surcouf (F711) is a La Fayette-class frigate of the French Navy.
	www.indisponible.net /surcouf.html (306 words)

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		The concern involves the Italian Fleet and the fall of France 1940 - All French warships in British ports are boarded and seized by Royal Navy personnel; 3 British personnel and a French seaman die in scuffles on board the submarine Surcouf.
		The French Navy had refused four alternatives offered to them - to join the British outright; be interned in British ports; sail to French ports in the West Indies; or scuttle their own ships.
		The French signed an armistice with the Germans on 24 June, after which her navy no longer formed part of the Allied forces.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/july/03Jul.txt (1616 words)

	La Fayette class frigate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The La Fayette class units are light multi-mission frigates built by DCN and operated by France (Marine Nationale), Saudi Arabia, Singapore (Republic of Singapore Navy) and Republic of China (Taiwan) (Republic of China Navy).
		Their reduced radar cross section is achieved by a very clean superstructure compared to conventional designs, angled sides and Radar Absorbent Material (RAM), a composite material of wood and glass fiber as hard as steel, light, and resistant to fire.
		Surcouf in Toulon; the helicopter is clearly visible on the aft
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/La_Fayette_class_frigate (909 words)

	A quick look at the French Navy(Marine Nationale) - World Affairs Board
		It took thiry years for the 18 1950's built Surcouf destroyer variants to be replaced 1971-2000.
		Its interestting to note that the French primarilly have grouped their ships in threes(ie three ship divisions) more from historical habit starting pre-war than anything else apparently.
		The French built 18 ocean-going convoy escorts of the E-50/52 classes in the mid-late 1950s and nine of the Commandant Riviere class in the early-mid 1960s.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /showthread.php?t=6033 (994 words)

	armada international: 5/99-004 (Full Article)
		But a large frigate has a variety of weapons, including an air defence system, long-range anti-ship missiles and one or two helicopters capable of attacking both underwater and surface targets, and each of these is very effective in its own sphere.
		The French frigate Surcouf relies on low-observability for protection, and has a relatively weak armament and outfit of sensors.
		The French and Italians will build a Eurofrigate which is in fact based on the F 3000S frigates building for Saudi Arabia at DCN Lorient.
	www.armada.ch /99-5/004.htm (3183 words)

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		Deployed since Sept. 26 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Surcouf was operating in the southern Red Sea when it received a distress signal from MV Sara 2.
		After Surcouf made radio contact with the merchant vessel, the French frigate’s Panther helicopter took off and arrived on the scene, but the crew of Sara 2 at first declined to evacuate, remaining aboard to repair the hole in the bow and the propulsion system.
		MV Sara 2 requested that Surcouf remain in the area 2005 - INDRA-2005, a biennial bilateral exercise between the armed forces of Russia and India, conducted from the 10 - 20 Oct 05.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/october/14Oct.txt (2505 words)

	The Hindu : National : Joint naval exercise with British navy on
		The Royal Navy's participants are HMS Illustrious, an aircraft carrier of 22000-ton displacement, having a squadron of Harrier GR7 ground attack aircraft, a joint force of the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.
		But the interesting aspect of the U.K. task group is the presence of French stealth frigate of Lafayette class, FS Surcouf, in its ranks.
		The Konkan 06 is significant because of the shift in the role of the British aircraft carriers, from sea control of the Cold War era to that of maritime strike and air operations against land targets in littoral environment.
	www.hindu.com /2006/05/21/stories/2006052114351100.htm (538 words)

	Doubts About Royal Navy,s Cvf And T 45 Future Ships [Archive] - Defence Talk Forum
		Exercises with the marines Omani (Magic Carpet) and Indian (Konkan 06) are envisaged in May. The deployment of the French frigate “lies within the scope of the Franco-British relations aiming at strengthening the co-operation of the two navy and to improve interworking of it”, underlines the national Navy.
		The Type 23 frigate, one of the most modem warships in the Royal Navy, sailed from Devonport Naval Base on 2 February for what was supposed to be a training mission with the French Navy in the Gulf and Indian Ocean region.
		The frigates in the British navy today are far better than the old Type 21s and Type 12s, which when you consider their capabilities in today's world were nothing but OPVs.
	www.defencetalk.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-4592.html (13495 words)

	French Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Navy officers on the bridges of the Motte-Picquet frigate French Navy summer uniforms Frigate division of the French Navy in Toulon harbour The French Navy (''Marine Nationale'') is the second-largest Western European navy (the largest being the Royal Navy).
		[Yet to be written] The French navy is affectionously known as La Royale (the "Royal"), for its supposed attachement to the monarchy; it is to be noted that some of the greatest heroes of the First Republic were in the French Navy (Casabianca, Muriène, the Redoutable).
		The motto of the French navy is "''Honneur, Patrie, Valeur, Discipline''" ("Honour, Country, Valour, Discipline").
	french-navy.kiwiki.homeip.net (317 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on HACKED BY TURK-SOPHİA
		French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools (en)
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	www.blinkbits.com /wikifeeds/FR?from=15300 (259 words)

	Royal Navy, Indian Navy begin military exercises off the Goan coast \| India Defence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Indian Navy will be fielding the guided-missile destroyer Mumbai, the guided-missile frigates Ganga and Brahmaputra, the fleet replenishment tanker Shakti, and the submarine Shankush.
		The Royal Navy task force comprises the aircraft carrier Illustrious (with her own air group), the guided-missile destroyer Gloucester, the fleet replenishment tanker Fort Victoria, the submarine support ship Diligence and the nuclear-powered submarine (SSN) Sovereign.
		In conformance with current practice, the Royal Navy task force has one French frigate, FNS Surcouf, embedded within it.
	www.india-defence.com /print/1939 (521 words)

	isen.com: Dregs and Grabs -- SMART Letter #79
		Privateers were private operations, financed by capitalistic investors, but they were endorsed by the state to operate guerilla warfare against enemy commerce; their methods were in many ways similar to those of WW1 and WW2 submarines, with the twist that cargo and profits were split between crews and investors.
		There is at least one documented event of a privateer attacking a warship: the capture of the English frigate "Kent" by the French privateer Surcouf, on August 31, 1800.
		Surcouf was not considered a criminal, at least not in France; today, the French frigate FNS Surcouf is patrolling the Indian Ocean.
	www.isen.com /archives/021113.html (1788 words)

	Chirac's `stealthy' reception committee
		MUMBAI, January 23: The marine equivalent of the stealth bomber, French naval frigate `Surcouf', pulled silently into the Mumbai port on Friday morning, a day in advance, to welcome French Premier Jacques Chirac.
		Surcouf is one of three French naval Lafayette class frigates, the world's first stealth warships and the most advanced in their class.
		The Surcouf which displaces 3700 tonnes would appear as a 400-tonne patrol boat on an enemy radar screen thanks to its special radar absorbent paint and smooth-angled silhouette which bounces off radar waves.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19980124/02450224.html (320 words)

	Slideshow for Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		French Frigate Aconit Date: 08/28/2006 French frigate Aconit (F713) on exercise in 1999.
		HMAS Darwin Date: 08/27/2006 Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Darwin (FFG 04) patrols in the waters of the Persian Gulf.
		La frégate Surcouf Date: 08/28/2006 French frigate Surcouf (F711) of the LaFayette class.
	www.militarypictures.info /index.php?g2_view=slideshow.Slideshow&g2_itemId=247 (528 words)

	NH-90_NFH
		The program of this helicopter was launched in the 80-90's, in order to replace WG-13 Lynxs and SA-321G Super-Frelons of the French Navy, and SA-330 Pumas of the French Army Light Aviation.
		The helicopters (NFH) will be delivered to the French and Italian Navies between 2005 and 2011 (four per year).
		The crew is composed by the pilot and co-pilot, the tactical co-ordinator responsible for anti-surface or anti-submarine warfare missions and the helicopter sensor systems operator.
	frenchnavy.free.fr /helicopters/nh-90/nh-90.htm (278 words)

	French NAVY destroyer Georges Leygues
		These well designed and very capable ships, the latest in along and successful line of big French destroyers, represent a notable achievement on the part of the designers, who have achieved a goal that has eluded many others by producing two different types of ship on the same hull.
		Developed from the Tourville (F 67) class, the original C 70s are the ASW Georges Leygues class, which the French Navy classifies as 'corvettes' and of which five are currently in service, with another two on order; an eighth was cancelled as an economy measure.
		A lot of aluminium alloy is already being used in the superstructure to save top weight, a step which the French designers may now be regretting in view of recent naval experiences with aluminium alloys in warships.
	navy-ship.all-model.com /Georges%20Leygues.html (751 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News -Indian summer for Illustrious (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lusty heads Aquila 06, a four-strong force which includes HMS Gloucester, RFA Fort Victoria and the French frigate Surcouf, and will focus its efforts in and around Oman and India to demonstrate the power of a strike carrier.
		At times, the force will be joined by HMS Lancaster, already in the Indian Ocean as the escort of French flagship Charles de Gaulle, hunter-killer submarine HMS Sovereign and forward repair ship RFA Diligence.
		This is the first major deployment for Illustrious without her trademark Sea Harriers; she will be joined instead by 800 NAS flying the GR7 bomber variant of the jump jet.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2006/0603/0006032901.asp (326 words)

	Escorteur d'escadre Surcouf
		Premier d'une série de 18 escorteurs d'escadre, le Surcouf a été conçu comme escorteur antiaérien et anti-sous-marin.
		Condamné le Surcouf devient le Q495 le 5 mai 1972, avant d'être utilisé comme cible.
		Le Surcouf avait pour ville marraine Saint Malo depuis février 1955.
	www.netmarine.net /bat/ee/surcouf/index.htm (196 words)

	Surcouf (F711) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On 14 May 2001, Surcouf had to assist Marc Guillemot skipper of the Biscuits La Trinitaine-Team Ethypharm, who had to abandon his ship after her starboard floater broke.
		The 16-man crew was successfully airlifted by the Panther helicopter, and later transferred from the frigate to Yemanite coast guards.
		Five ships of the French Navy have borne the name in honour of the 18th century Saint-Malo corsair Robert Surcouf (see French ship Surcouf for the list).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/FS_Surcouf (291 words)

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