| Navy | The US Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | PG-63 |
| Built by | John Crown & Sons Ltd. (Sunderland, U.K) : N.E. Marine |
| Ordered | 31 Aug 1939 |
| Laid down | 23 Oct 1939 |
| Launched | 5 Jun 1940 |
| Commissioned | 24 Mar 1942 |
| End service | 20 Aug 1945 |
| Loss position | |
| History | Ordered for French Navy but taken over with the fall of France. |
| Former name | HMS Helitrope |
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Noteable events involving Surprise include:
30 Jun 1942
USS Surprise picks up 50 survivors from the American merchant Sea Thrush that was torpedoed and sunk on 28 June 1942 by the German submarine U-505 about 425 nautical miles north-east of San Juan, Puerto Rico in position 22º38'N, 60º59'W.
7 Nov 1942
USS Surprise picks up 6 survivors from the British merchant Lindenhall that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-508 about 40 nautical miles north of Margarita Island, Venezuela in position 11º34'N, 63º26'W.
7 Jul 1943
USS Surprise takes of 18 men from the American merchant Thomas Sinnickson that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-185 about 125 nautical miles east of Fortaleza, Brazil in position 03º51'S, 36º22'W. After a crack appeared in the bulkhead between the engine room and #3 hold, the officers came to the conclusion that the ship is lost and at daylight on 8 July all hands abandoned ship and were picked up by the corvette, which scuttled the wreck by gunfire at 1430 hours.