Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "MN Surcouf - Guide 136 (Extended)" video.

A boat is a vessel that can be carried by a ship is the USN definition. The original subs at the beginning of the 1900's were indeed so small that they were boats and the term has stuck as a sort of affectionate nickname USN "Fleet Boat" IJN "I Boat" KM "U-Boat"
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The classic story of the K-boats was the CO (in the forward torpedo room telephoning his First Lieutenant, who was aft) "I say Number One, my end seems to be diving, what is your end doing?"
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@derkrampus9986 And it is FRENCH, imagine the galley stores and wine cellar. In my career, I encountered the French equivalent of both C-Rations and MRE's. Quite good, I thought. The absolute dregs was the German "Cheeseburger In a Can". I won't subject you to a description, you can look it up on line. Although it was gone before my time, the French also had Vinogel - jellied concentrated red wine. You added it to your canteen, added water and voila! At Dien Bien Phu, the French made an airdrop that landed behind Viet Minh lines. The Legion ferociously attacked and recaptured the Vinogel, so every legionnaire could have wine to drink the next day, which was Camerone Day, the holiest day of the year in the Legion. It is celebrated with a formal ceremony followed by what has been described as "a sort of orderly military orgy". I have seen a former Viet Minh officer say that, with enough sugar, Vinogel wasn't bad.
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Ralph The US made deliberately sure that its WW2 allies did not acquire nuclear capability as long as possible. The French didn't fire their first test shot until IIRC 1964. And nobody had nuclear artillery until the US 11 inch M65 "Atomic Annie" of 1953 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M65_atomic_cannon https://youtu.be/hZ1Oi15044c I once talked to a retired officer who had served in an M65 battery in Germany. He said they were totally impractical. It was assumed that the GRU tracked their every move and one of the first moves of WW3 would be for Spetznaz to attempt to destroy them.
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To the skimmers and zoomies, all subs looed alike. USS Seawolf was sunk with all hands by the DE Rowell. USS Dorado was sunk in the Atlantic. It became standard practice for assign a surface ship to escort a sub to a safe position far at sea and to pick her up coming back to escort her to port. Classic story from the RN sub force. Signals "Will make port at 1600 if the RAF will stop bombing us." It really was a case of shoot first and ask questions later.
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HMS X-1 was the only RN vessel commissioned AND scrapped between the world wars
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Yes, her long range and room for ample stores were tailor made for the Pacific. I imagine she would have been based in French Polynesia and fallen under the operational control of COMSUBSOWESTPAC in Australia, possibly refueling and resupplying there before going on patrol, the same way Pearl based boats used Midway. Also, her passenger compartment would have made her ideal for smuggling agents and supplies for guerillas into the Philippines. You could ditch the seaplane and use her hanger for even more supplies and use the boat to land both them and the agents
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@paulwoodman5131 If you could find a Milch Cow, you generally found other U-boats waiting to refuel, rearm and reprovision, so you had a much greater chance of multiple kills
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To torpedo Space Battleship Yamato
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