cargo steamship Phidias in the mid-Atlantic, sinking her and killing her master and seven other crew. On 22 June 1941 the attacked the B-class cargo steamship Balzac in the Atlantic northeast of Para. Despite being heavily outgunned and several knots slower than the raider, Balzac returned fire and zig-zagged to evade German shells. Atlantis fired 190 rounds, only four of which hit Balzac. But eventually the raider overtook and sank her. One source states that three members of Balzacs crew were killed. Another puts the death toll at four. On 31 January 1942 torpedoed and sank the B-class cargo steamship Biela in the North Atlantic about southwest of Cape Race, Newfoundland. U-98 saw survivors abandon ship in lifeboats and rafts, but after the U-boat left the area they were never seen again. All hands were lost: a crew of 49 or 50 men. On 24 June 1942 about southeast of Bermuda, shelled the cargo steamship , which Lamport and Holt was managing for the Ministry of War Transport. The steamship caught fire and was abandoned. Six of her complement were killed, another was wounded and her Master was captured. On 23 September 1942 the B-class cargo steamship Bruyère was approaching Freetown in Sierra Leone when torpedoed and sank her, fortunately without loss of life. Lamport and Holt's next loss was not to enemy action. On 24 September 1942 the D-class cargo motor ship Defoe was in the North Atlantic southwest of Rockall, en route from Manchester in England to Famagusta in Cyprus laden with chlorine in drums and aeroplane varnish, when she suffered an explosion. Her bow forward of her foremast was blown off and fire broke out. Six of her crew were killed and the remainder abandoned ship. Defoe drifted for at least two days before sinking. On 29 October 1942 the L-class cargo steamship Laplace was about south-southeast of Cape Agulhas, South Africa when torpedoed and sank her. All 61 members of her complement survived. On 12 November 1942 the B-class cargo steamship Browning was laden with munitions, tanks and other materiél for the Allied invasion of French North Africa when torpedoed and sank her off Oran on the coast of Algeria. One member of her crew, her deck boy, was killed. The D-class motor ship Devis was modified as an assault command ship. On 5 July 1943 she was the commodore ship in Convoy KMS 18B for