A conspicuous white-painted monument on Lyle Hill in Greenock, the Free French Memorial was designed and built by the officers and men of the wartime French Naval Base at Greenock and takes the form of a Cross of Lorraine, the symbol of the Free French Forces. It commemorates their fellow seamen lost while stationed at Greenock during World War II and, in particular, the officers and crew of the submarine Surcouf, together with the corvettes Alysse and Mimosa which were all lost in the Atlantic during 1942. Launched in 1929, the Surcouf was an underwater cruiser, for ten years the biggest submarine in the world, with its own on-board seaplane hangar.
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