Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-29 | Page 1 | Auxiliary Cruiser La Provence Sunk

AUXIliARY CRUISER 4 S PROVENCE SUNK S1 j. j PARIS Feb 28 via London Feb 23 21 Th The The auxiliary French cruiser cruise J La a Provence Provence was sunk in the Mediterranean ra- ra nean last Saturday it ft was announced today At Malta ralta survivors survivors vors ha have vo been landed 1 t I The ministry of marine estimates estimates' the number of survivors at Four hundred survivors were landed at at Milo La Provence sank in the middle middie middle mid mid- mid mid- dle die of ot the Mediterranean S Sn r n 5 La Provence was one of the larg largest st st. of the l French line vessels Her grass s' s tonnage was She was built at St. St Nazaire In 1906 was 65 teet feet beam and 38 IS feet deep She he was requisitioned by the tho French gg eminent for naval service at the outbreak out out- break of ot the war S 'S