 Two men were killed in the initial explosion and another two men died in the aftermath; "Gaulois"s normal complement was 631 men.Five days later, New Year's Day 1917, "UB-47" torpedoed and sank the Cunard Line ship —in service as a British troopship—at position , from Cape Matapan.Under the command of Captain William T. Turner, who had been in command of when that liner was sunk in May 1915, the 14,278-ton "Ivernia" was ferrying troops to Salonica when sunk by "UB-47".