page_title: Lamport and Holt
section_title: Ships lost or damaged
hierarchical_section_title: Lamport and Holt / First World War / Ships lost or damaged
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Kleiner Kreuzer "Karlsruhe" Information added by Wikimedia users.English: German light cruiser Karlsruhe Polski: Niemiecki lekki krążownik "Karlsruhe" z okresu I wojny światowej
context_page_description: Lamport and Holt was a UK merchant shipping line. It was founded as a partnership in 1845, reconstituted as a limited company in 1911 and ceased trading in 1991.
  From 1845 until 1975 Lamport and Holt was headquartered in Liverpool. The founders of Booth Line and Blue Funnel Line had family links with the original partners in Lamport and Holt, and worked for them before founding their own steamship lines in the 1860s.
  Lamport and Holt was an independent partnership until 1911, when it became a limited company and the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company took it over. RMSP collapsed as a result of the Royal Mail Case in 1931 but was reconstituted as Royal Mail Lines in 1932. Vestey Group bought Lamport and Holt in 1944 and absorbed it into its Blue Star Line subsidiary in 1991.
  For much of its history Lamport and Holt traded with the east coast of South America, operating liner services there to and from New York, Britain and mainland Europe. from 1902 to 1928 it operated a significant passenger ocean liner service and from 1932 to 1939 it ran cruise ships.
  Lamport and Holt carried cargo for the UK government in the Crimean War, World War I, World War II and Falklands War.
context_section_description: At the outbreak of war the German light cruiser SMS Karlsruhe was in the Caribbean. On 8 October she intercepted Lamport and Holt's 4,635 GRT cargo ship Cervantes about 100 miles southwest of St Paul's Rocks, removed the crew and scuttled the cargo ship.
  On 26 October 1914 Vandyck was about 690 miles west of St Paul's Rocks with 200 passengers and a cargo that included about 1,000 tons of frozen meat when Karlsruhe intercepted her. The cruiser transferred Vandyck's passengers and crew to the steamship Ascuncion, took much of Vandyck's cargo and on 27 October scuttled Vandyck. Lamport and Holt continued to run its New York – River Plate service, but at reduced frequency.
  Lamport and Holt survived 1915 without loss. On 9 February 1916 the German merchant raider Möwe intercepted and sank the company's 3,335 GRT cargo ship Horace about 600 miles northeast of Pernambuco. On 2 December 1916 Möwe intercepted and sank the V-class liner Voltaire about 650 miles west of Fastnet Rock in the Western Approaches. Both ships were captured and scuttled without loss of life.
  On 17 December 1916 SM U-70 torpedoed the 5,587 GRT cargo ship Pascal 12 miles north of the Casquets in the English Channel, sinking her and killing two of her crew. The submarine captured Pascal's Master, who was interned in Germany for the remainder of the war.
  On 6 April 1916 SM U-39 shelled the 5,394 GRT 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, SM UC-37 torpedoed and sank Colbert in the Mediterranean about 15 miles northeast of Cape Rose on the coast of Algeria. She sank in only five minutes, killing 51 people aboard.
  On 28 April 1917 SM U-81 torpedoed and sank the 4,309 GRT cargo ship Terence about 150 miles northwest by north of Fastnet, killing one crewman.
  On 22 August 1917 SM U-53 torpedoed and sank the V-class liner Verdi in the Western Approaches about 115 miles northwest by north off Eagle Island, County Mayo, killing six of her crew.
  On 26 August 1917 the Austro-Hungarian submarine SM U-14 sank the 4,170 GRT Titian in the Mediterranean about 170 miles southeast of Malta, fortunately without loss of life. Titian was a sister of Terence which had been sunk only four months previously. U-14's commander was KKpt Georg von Trapp.
  On 3 October 1917 the 7,307 GRT 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 SM U-105 torpedoed and sank the 4,637 GRT cargo ship Canova in the Western Approaches about 15 miles south of Mine Head, County Waterford, killing seven crewmen.
  On 6 January 1918 SM U-61 torpedoed and sank the 4,186 GRT cargo ship Spenser in St George's Channel about 35 miles northeast of Tuskar Rock, Ireland.
  On 27 February 1918 SM U-61 torpedoed the 7,402 GRT 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 5,839 GRT cargo ship Dryden struck a mine in the River Mersey. She managed to reach port and was repaired.
caption: The German cruiser Karlsruhe, which in October 1914 intercepted and sank Cervantes and Vandyck
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