SS Le Calvados

The SS Le Calvados was a French military troopship.

On November 4, 1915, German submarine SM U-38 torpedoed the transport in between Marseille and Oran, 22 miles NW of Cape Ivy (Arzew, Algeria). Of the 800 on board, 740 were killed.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "The Cornell Daily Sun 15 November 1915 — The Cornell Daily Sun". cdsun.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
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