the beach of Praia do Veloso with no loss of life. On 17 October Lamport and Holt's steamship Milton left Santos to look for Velasquez. She found and rescued the passengers and crew on the beach, and salvaged the mails and some of the passengers' baggage from the wreck. Attempts to salvage Velasquez were unsuccessful and her insurers wrote her off as a total loss. Lamport and Holt replaced Velasquez on the New York – River Plate route with the liner , which was built by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co and launched in 1909. She was considerably larger than Voltaire and the first Lamport and Holt ship of more than . Lamport and Holt decided that its route between Liverpool and the River Plate via Vigo, Leixões and Lisbon should also have liners, so in 1910 it ordered three sister ships from Workman, Clark & Co. The first to be delivered was the , launched in June 1911. She was followed by the in January 1912 and in May 1912, each of which had berths for slightly more passengers than Vandyck. Each of the trio had a top speed of . Also in 1911 Lamport and Holt was converted from a partnership into a limited company. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company quickly took advantage of this and took over Lamport and Holt. In 1912 management of the company was moved from Lamport and Holt's offices in Fenwick Street, Liverpool to the RMSP's offices in the Royal Liver Building. RMSP was also planning a fast ocean liner service with new ships between Britain and the River Plate. Until enough of its new ships were delivered, RMSP chartered Vauban to help to inaugurate the route between Southampton and Buenos Aires. This left Lamport and Holt with too few ships to offer the service frequency it had planned from Liverpool. In 1913 RMSP returned Vauban to Lamport and Holt, having successfully forced the smaller company out of the route. Lamport and Holt then transferred Vandyck, Vauban and Vestris to strengthen its service between New York and the River Plate via Barbados and Trinidad, where they became the largest, quickest and most luxurious ships on the route. On 16 January 1913 Veronese was heading from Liverpool to Buenos Aires with 144 passengers and 77 crew when she struck rocks off Leça da Palmeira in Portugal in heavy sea and thick fog. The