Pick one category for the following text. The options are - company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work. French minesweeper Surprise - Surprise (or 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 on March 1940.[citation needed]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.
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Mean Of Transportation