February 26 1916

Germans Sink French Transport Ship Provence II

Known in peacetime as La Provence, the ship was refitted for troops 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 where 742 survivors. Close to a thousand where killed in the sinking.