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French submarine Casabianca ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Casabianca_(Q183) )

A 1500t Redoutable class submarine (11 torpedo launchers) which is one of the few submarines that forced the German blockade and managed to escape the scuttling at Toulon in 1942 under German fire and joined the Allies in Africa (nearly get sunk by a British DD doing so). She played a key role in the liberation of Corsica by doing several secret missions for the Free French secret service (in collaboration with the OSS and MI6).

The mission of her crew and herself was to contact locals in Corsica and organize them into coordinated resistant cells, to deliver weapons, ammunitions and equipments to the French resistants in preparation of a future landing to liberate the island from the Italians and Germans. During this period, she carried out 7 secret sorties, sunk 2 warships (one with torpedo, the other with her deck gun), and one merchant vessel. She even landed a hundred Free French commandos in Corsica (a feat for a ship of her size). Her elusiveness earned her the nickname "Ghost Submarine" from the Germans. It's also ironic that her namesake was a famous Corsican navy officer.

For her brilliant participation in the liberation of Corsica, Casabianca was  Cited 7 times out of which 6 at the orders of the navy ,  was decorated with the  Croix de guerre 1939–1945 and was awarded the  Red Fourragere of the  Légion d'honneur and was one of the rare French ships to receive a Jolly Roger from the British ( http://www.sous-mama.org/photos_blog/big/nocomment-996750271afdbfe0c2299d8e822dae56.jpg )

She was later modernized in the US where she received 2x 20mm Oerlikons and radars and survived the war. A movie about her and her deads was made in 1951 ( https://img.seriebox.com/films/38/38366/affich_38366_1.jpg )

In KC, she would have good HP, great Torpedoes, High Evasion and Luck. Her Kai Ni form would reflect her deads in Corsica and her modernization in the US (better AA and LOS, radar equipment, maybe the possibility to equip drums and daihatsus ?). Her CG could represent her like a Spy, secret agent (with maybe optical camo Metal gear like XD) and waving her Jolly Roger (or used like a cape giving her a pirate-like aura (Kiso style)) and wearing her medals.

Her damaged CG can be inspired by the events of the battle of the Nile. Casabianca ordered his 12 year old son, Giocante, to stay safe and wait for his orders at the back of the ship, but he perished soon after. Giocante stayed on the burning deck of his ship, waiting for the orders of his father, not knowing he passed away, and died in the explosion of the ship (http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/lookandlearn-preview/M/M116/M116652.jpg ). This event inspired the famous poem "The boy stood on the burning deck" by Felicia Hemans ( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casabianca_(po%C3%A8me) ). Here Casabianca could stand firm, with a defiant look on her face, while burning.

I'd also like too see the Fantasque class French Large Destroyer in the game, mostly Le Terrible ( 45 knots s peed world record). Would be fun with Zekamashi XD. Their guns could also have the unique trait of being Medium range giving the possibilty to the DD of obtaining Medium range by equipping them (138.6 mm French guns had more range than the Japanese 14 cm guns IRL) They would be the Zara of the DD ;)