register tons, which accounted for nearly 20% of the total sunk by all German U-boats in the Mediterranean. On patrol in the Aegean Sea on 27 December, Steinbauer came across the French pre-dreadnought battleship . Although it was screened by light cruisers and naval trawlers, Steinbauer was, nonetheless, able to sink the 11,100-ton displacement ship east of Cerigo. Two men were killed in the initial explosion and another two men died in the aftermath; Gauloiss 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 GRT Ivernia was ferrying troops to Salonica when sunk by UB-47. Because of the heavy weather at the time of Ivernias sinking, 120 officers and men and 33 crewmen were killed in the attack. Like Franconia, both Gaulois and Ivernia were among the largest ships sunk by U-boats; Ivernia was the 20th largest sunk. Two days after the attack on Ivernia, UB-47 torpedoed and damaged the British steamer , killing one person in the process. The Huntsend was the former North German Lloyd liner Lützow, which had been captured by British naval forces in the Mediterranean in August 1914, and, like UB-47, had been built by AG Weser in Bremen. On 1 March 1917, UB-47 torpedoed and damaged the British steamer Euterpe near Suda Bay, killing two men in the process. A week later, on 8 March, Steinbauer sank his last ship at the helm of UB-47, when Georgian was sent to the bottom from Cape Sidero. The 1890 British ship, rated at 5,088 gross register tons, was carrying government stores; five of her crew perished in the attack. On 1 April, Oberleutnant zur See Hans Hermann Wendlandt replaced Steinbauer as commanding officer of UB-47. A week after assuming his first U-boat command, the 30-year-old Wendlandt scored his first success by sinking two Greek steamers on the same day. Livatho was sailing in ballast from Salonica for New York when she was sunk northwest of Crete by an explosive charge placed by UB-47s crew. Nestos was carrying a load of wheat from New York for Piraeus when shelled and sunk from Sapientza. Three days later, the British ship Cyfarthfa was