French minesweeper Surprise

Surprise (or La Surprise) was a World War II French Navy. Arsenal de Lorient in Brittany launched her on 17 June 1939. and she was commissioned on March 1940.

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.