French aviso La Surprise
# French aviso La Surprise

La Surprise was a World War II French Navy Chamois-class aviso. Arsenal de Lorient in Brittany launched her on 17 June 1939. and she was commissioned in March 1940.

On 8 November 1942 the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Brilliant sank La Surprise by gunfire off Oran, French Algeria, during Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa.

