Surcouf had the largest guns of any cruiser submarine.
A cruiser submarine was a very large submarine designed to remain at sea for extended periods in areas distant from base facilities. Their role was analogous to surface cruisers; 'cruising' distant waters, commerce raiding, and otherwise operating independently. When operating within a fleet, cruisers and cruiser submarines could be expected to scout for and screen the battle fleet. Cruiser submarines were successful for a brief period of World War I, but were less successful than smaller submarines during World War II. Large submarines remained vulnerable to damage from defensively equipped merchant ships (DEMS), were slow to dive if found by aircraft, offered a large sonar echo surface, and were less able to defensively maneuver during depth charge attacks.[1]
A cruisersubmarine was a very large submarine designed to remain at sea for extended periods in areas distant from base facilities. Their role was analogous...
A cruiser is a type of warship. Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can...
Surcouf [syʁ.kuf] was a large French gun-armed cruisersubmarine of the mid 20th century. She carried two 8" guns as well as anti-aircraft guns and (for...
for use aboard the Cruisersubmarines that never went into service. The British also experimented with the aircraft-carrying submarine concept when HMS E22...
The aircraft cruiser (also known as aviation cruiser or cruiser-carrier) is a warship that combines the features of the aircraft carrier and a surface...
with food supplies as the only limiting factor. Cruisersubmarine were a type of a very large submarine designed to remain at sea for extended periods...
Submarines of the Soviet Navy were developed by numbered "projects", which were sometimes but not always given names. During the Cold War, NATO nations...
unsuccessful SubmarineCruiser such as the French Surcouf and the Royal Navy's X1 and M-class submarines. With the arrival of anti-submarine warfare (ASW)...
War II cruisers (CAG/CLG/CG) in this role. The guided-missile frigates also had an anti-submarine capability that most of the World War II cruiser conversions...
A heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203 mm (8 inches)...
Junsen I type (巡潜I型, Cruisersubmarine Type I) (I-1-class) submarines were based on the Kaidai II (Type KD2) and German submarine U-142. I-1 – sank SS Siantar...
The battlecruiser (also written as battle cruiser or battle-cruiser) was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century. These were similar...
An attack submarine or hunter-killer submarine is a submarine specifically designed for the purpose of attacking and sinking other submarines, surface...
successful attacks on British cruisers, including the sinking of three British armored cruisers by the German submarine SM U-9 in less than an hour. The...
missile submarine is a submarine capable of deploying submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) with nuclear warheads. These submarines became a...
cruiser (proposed hull designator: CSGN) was a proposal from DARPA for a class of cruisers in the late 1970s. The proposal was for the Strike Cruiser...
attack/patrol submarines within the USN, and, more formally, by the Royal Navy and British firms such as Jane's Information Group. SC: CruiserSubmarine (retired)...
of Pulo Aura in 1804, and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran sinking the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney in their battle in 1941, although Kormoran...
capital ships of no more than 10,000 tons, six cruisers, twelve destroyers, twelve torpedo boats, and no submarines or aircraft carriers. Military aircraft were...
the area she had mined and a cruiser was damaged and abandoned. Kemp, Paul (1997). U-boats Destroyed: German Submarine Losses in the World Wars. Naval...
including various types of battleship, battlecruiser, cruiser, destroyer, frigate, and corvette. Submarine – self-propelled submersible types regardless of...
carriers by converting cruiser hulls. These Independence-class aircraft carriers, converted from Cleveland-class light cruisers, were unsatisfactory ships...
Modified) submarine (巡潜甲型改二潜水艦, Junsen kō-gata kai-ni sensuikan, "Cruisersubmarine type A modified 2"), also called I-13-class submarine (伊一三型潜水艦, I-jū-san-gata...
A submarine tender, in British English a submarine depot ship, is a type of depot ship that supplies and supports submarines. Submarines are small compared...
The Type B1 submarine (巡潜乙型潜水艦, Junsen Otsu-gata sensuikan, lit. "Cruisersubmarine type B"), also called I-15-class submarine (伊一五型潜水艦, I-jū-go-gata sensuikan)...
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