By: Video: Mystery Of Sub Lost Off Bermuda In 1942 | Bernews.com

Video: Mystery Of Sub Lost Off Bermuda In 1942 | Bernews.com — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 17:14:03 +0000

[...] submarine that vanished after leaving Bermuda in 1942 is the subject of the “The Mystery Ship of WWII, The Surcouf” documentary from the New [...]

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Thriller Tries To Solve Submarine Mystery | Bernews.com — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 16:50:04 +0000

[...] disappearance of the giant Free French submarine “Surcouf” after she departed Bermuda in 1942 provides the point of departure for a new sailing [...]

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Requiem Honoured Bermuda Sub Disaster Victim | Bernews.com — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:17:17 +0000

[...] inspired by a British naval officer lost at sea off Bermuda aboard the Free French submarine “Surcouf” in [...]

By: Julius Grigore, Jr., Captain, USN, Retired

Julius Grigore, Jr., Captain, USN, Retired — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:03:09 +0000

White Paper about The Surcouf Conspiracy
The Most Bizarre and Occult Story Never Told about a Submarine
The Surcouf Conspiracy, within 451 pages and 75 photographs, is a penetrating analysis about the elite submarine SURCOUF, the pride of the Free French Navy, which the SS THOMPSON LYKES, an American freighter, rammed in the dead of a Caribbean night, along the fringes of the Bermuda Triangle during World War II.
SURCOUF entered The Guinness Book of Records as the world’s worst submarine disaster when she sank, faster than she could crash dive, with 130 aboard, including three of the Royal Navy. No submarine has rivaled her unenviable record, although the USS THRESHER in April 1963 tried with 129 losses.
According to the renowned British naval journalist Hector C. Bywater, who, in his 1925 book The Great Pacific War foretold the Imperial Japanese Navy’s surprise attack upon Pearl Harbor, SURCOUF, with her twin 8-inch guns and a reconnaissance seaplane, was destined to die by collision before she came into existence in 1929 as the largest, most powerful, undersea monster in naval warfare.
Dating back to 1805, when Robert Surcouf, the French corsair of St Malo ruthlessly ravaged the British East Indiaman KENT in the in the Indian Ocean, the name Surcouf was despicably detested by the Crown of England and the Royal Navy, and a huge reward was offered for his death. The submarine SURCOUF, even though she served under the command of Flag Officer, Submarines, Royal Navy, during World War II, gave little reason for passionate amour when her gunnery and medical officers, as an act honoring the traditions of the French Navy, killed three of the Royal Navy along her decks during Operation GRASP on July 3, 1940. Her proud French name was further discredited by vicious rumors that she was a traitor submarine that refueled and supplied German U-boats.
Yet, Surcouf gained imperishable fame when she participated in the liberation of the Vichy held St. Pierre and Miquelon Islands on December 1941, which Ira Wolfert, in his book An Act of Love, wrote that the liberation of the St. Pierre and Miquelon Islands was the best Christmas present given to a people desiring to be free. It was what the war was all about, and one of the first occurrences during which people were liberated from the political oppression of Vichy France. Yet, for her role in the St. Pierre and Miquelon Affair, diplomats considered it an act of unauthorized piracy that caused President Roosevelt to threaten to deploy the battleship USS ARKANSAS to forcibly remove SURCOUF from the North Atlantic.
Every legend has an untold story and the one about the dishonor and forces of evil, which relentlessly plagued SURCOUF, the deadliest threat to England’s supremacy at sea, is finally revealed. Evil came in a chain of supernatural and real happenings that afflicted SURCOUF, even before she was conceived, to die as the world’s worst submarine disaster on February 18, 1942.
Two versions of SURCOUF’s life and death are united: the occult and the real. They were in search of one another as both were integral to the occurrence of the SURCOUF-SS THOMPSON LYKES Collision. So many unreal happenings preceded that unholy event that they ultimately fused with actuality.
Something was drastically amiss onboard SURCOUF else wise why would the British Naval Liaison Officer remark to a Royal Canadian naval officer that he was shaking hands with a dead man if he remained onto her when she departed Halifax for Bermuda during January 1942.
Two explosions rocked SURCOUF’s hulk as she sank, leading some French to believe that limpet mines were secured to her hull while she lay at Ireland Dockyard, Bermuda, before her departure for the South Pacific. They adamantly suspected a Garbage Squad attached them under the direction of a double agent in the office of Intrepid, England’s spymaster in New York, with intent to block the Gatun Locks of the Panama Canal while SURCOUF was in transit.
The never told circumstances behind SURCOUF’s pitiful loss have remained, until now, one the most bizarre and occult sea sagas to emerge from World War II. Integrated throughout SURCOUF’s story line is documented commentary involving highest level wartime American, British, Free French and Vichy French diplomatic, political, and naval personages; like Churchill, de Gaulle, Roosevelt, Hull, Eden, Horton, and Darlan.
Also, interwoven into SURCOUF’s dramatic saga are the weird roles played by American, Bermudian, British, and French women long before SURCOUF’s existence and during her tumultuous life and her compelling afterlife. Not since Lady Hamilton, Lord Nelson’s mistress, have women appeared as forcefully in naval history as throughout SURCOUF’s embroiled life and after her frightful death.
The author offers a $1,000,000 in gold if it can be proved officially that SURCOUF was a traitor submarine or that she was not sunk by the SS THOMPSON LYKES.
The Surcouf Conspiracy is available on Amazon as a hard back, paper cover, or on Kindle.

By: Gerald Franklin

Gerald Franklin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:50:07 +0000

As a boy I remember being told about that french sub in WW2 by my father who was in the BVRC and then the Bermuda police for the 2ed half of WW2 . He told me that sub was suspected of changing sides and was indeed sinking our food boats . It was decided to take matters into their own hands and a number of USAAF planes were sent to send it to the bottom as soon as she had resupplied in Bermuda and as soon as she had enough distance so as not to be seen from Bermuda. He told me it was blown out of the water and that was , the end of the matter. A little bit of history as I remember is but it’s what I was told and I remember that story well.

By: Sean Field-Lament

Sean Field-Lament — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:14:18 +0000