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Everyone keeps talking about Surcouf, but Casabianca has a much more interesting history. She was one of the few ships to escape the scuttling at Toulon to join the allies in 1942 so that basically makes her the french equivalent of Yukikaze.

>Casabianca cruised the North Sea off Norway between 1939 and 1940. She was disarmed in 1941, after the fall of France, but Captain Jean L'Herminier secretly restored her weapons and maintained some fuel aboard. On 27 Nov 1942, German troops violated the armistice signed with the Vichy government and attacked the port city of Toulon. The French fleet stationed there was scuttled en masse, but several commanding officers refused to obey the order. Casabianca, being one of the vessels that disobeyed, sneaked out of the harbor while under German small arms fire. She escaped the harbor and fled to Algiers, surrendering herself before British patrol boats. From Dec 1942 to 1944, she served with the Free French, landing intelligence agents, radios, and weapons to Corsica and Provence in southern France. Her elusiveness earned her the nickname of "Phantom Submarine" from German troops.

>In her last mission, she landed a hundred men of the elite forces (achieving a record for a submarine of such a displacement in the process). The men were landed on an isolated beach at Arone near the village of Piana in the North West of Corsica. A monument exists there now