World War II: The Belgian Troopship <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Léopoldville_(1928)" id="mw_g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="SS Léopoldville (1928)">Leopoldville</a> was torpedoed and sank with the loss of 763 soldiers and 56 crew.<sup about="#mwt139" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-25"}}' id="cite_ref-25" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_24#cite_note-25" id="mw_w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 25;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQA">[25]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-25"><cite about="#mwt136" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFAllen">Allen, Tonya. <a class="external text" href="http://www.uboat.net/history/leopoldville.htm" id="mwCOs" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"The Sinking of SS <i id="mwCOw">Léopoldville</i>"</a>. <i id="mwCO0">uboat.net</i>. Guðmundur Helgason<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCO4">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCO8">2021-05-10</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt136" class="Z3988" id="mwCPA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=uboat.net&amp;rft.atitle=The+Sinking+of+SS+L%C3%A9opoldville&amp;rft.aulast=Allen&amp;rft.aufirst=Tonya&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uboat.net%2Fhistory%2Fleopoldville.htm&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+24"></span></span>