SS La Provence

SS La Provence was an ocean liner and auxiliary cruiser torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea on February 26, 1916. [1] She was a ship owned by the French Compagnie Générale Transatlantique.

Known in peacetime as La Provence, the ship was refitted for troop transport during World War I. It was designed to carry 1,960 persons, and was transporting troops from France to Salonika when it was sunk by the German submarine U-35, south of Cape Matapan. The ship listed so quickly that many of the lifeboats could not be used. There were 742 survivors. Close to a thousand people were killed in the sinking.[2].

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References

  1. ^ "Greatest Disaster", The Ogden Standard, March 4, 1916, p16
  2. ^ Paul G. Halpern, A Naval History of World War I (Routledge, 1994), p386