A SEA TERROR
War in the future will see great underwater cruisers travelling hundreds of feet deep to the enemy coasts.. The French Navy has already completed one such new terror of the sea (says the London "Sunday Express"). It is the Surcouf, the greatest submarine in the world, which will be launched at Cherbourg on 18th November. The Surcouf is a Jules Verne dream realised. She is actually an underwater cruiser, 400 ft long, with a crew of 150 officers and men, carrying four 5.5 in guns in armoured turrets, and with a small seaplane housed in a watertight hangar on her deck. She also carries sufficient fuel for a voyage of 13,000 miles —half-way round the world —without calling at a port. The Surcouf can dive 80ft deeper than any other submarine, she has storage.for 30 torpedoes of the latest and most destructive model, and she is thickly armoured against shells and bombs.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 5, 7 January 1930, Page 12
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155A SEA TERROR Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 5, 7 January 1930, Page 12
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