of Pernambuco. On 2 December 1916 Möwe intercepted and sank the V-class liner Voltaire about west of Fastnet Rock in the Western Approaches. Both ships were captured and scuttled without loss of life. On 17 December 1916 torpedoed the cargo ship Pascal north of the Casquets in the English Channel, sinking her and killing two of her crew. The submarine captured Pascals Master, who was interned in Germany for the remainder of the war. On 6 April 1916 shelled the cargo ship Colbert in the Mediterranean west of Sardinia, damaging the ship and killing two crewmen. Colbert was a French-registered cargo steamship in which Lamport and Holt held a 49 percent share. Just over a year later, on 30 April 1917, torpedoed and sank Colbert in the Mediterranean about northeast of Cape Rose on the coast of Algeria. She sank in only five minutes, killing 51 people aboard. On 28 April 1917 torpedoed and sank the cargo ship Terence about northwest by north of Fastnet, killing one crewman. On 22 August 1917 torpedoed and sank the V-class liner Verdi in the Western Approaches about northwest by north off Eagle Island, County Mayo, killing six of her crew. On 26 August 1917 the Austro-Hungarian submarine sank the Titian in the Mediterranean about southeast of Malta, fortunately without loss of life. Titian was a sister of Terence which had been sunk only four months previously. U-14s commander was KKpt Georg von Trapp. On 3 October 1917 the M-class refrigerated ship Memling was damaged by a torpedo in the North Atlantic off Brest, France. With help Memling reached port, but she was written off as a constructive total loss and scrapped. On 24 December 1917 torpedoed and sank the cargo ship Canova in the Western Approaches about south of Mine Head, County Waterford, killing seven crewmen. On 6 January 1918 torpedoed and sank the cargo ship Spenser in St George's Channel about northeast of Tuskar Rock, Ireland. On 27 February 1918 torpedoed the M-class refrigerated ship Marconi in the Mediterranean off Málaga, killing two crewmen. Marconi remained afloat, reached port and was repaired. On 28 March 1918 the cargo ship Dryden struck a mine in the River Mersey. She managed to reach port and was repaired. Between the World Wars Lamport and Holt replaced First World War losses mostly by buying war standard merchant ships that had been ordered by the UK Shipping