Provence II (shipwreck)

Provence II (shipwreck)

The sinking of the "Provence II" was one of the greatest wartime disasters in history, with 3,130 French soldiers and sailors drowning after the auxiliary cruiser was torpedoed in the Mediterranean Sea on February 26, 1916. [ "Greatest Disaster", "The Ogden Standard", March 4, 1916, p16 ] An ocean liner in peace time, "La Provence" was refitted for troop transport during World War One. It was designed to carry 1,960 persons, and was transporting nearly 4,000 from North Africa to Salonika when it 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. Though now largely forgotten, there were more lives lost on "La Provence" then on the Titanic or the Lusitania. [ Paul G. Halpern, "A Naval History of World War I" (Routledge, 1994), p386 ] .

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