Atlantis captured her 13th victim since leaving Germany eight months earlier:
SS Automedon, a British merchantman.
Upon learning that the
Automedon was to be sunk once the boarding party returned, a passenger from the
Automedon, Mrs Violet Ferguson, pleaded with the captain to retrieve her luggage first. Kapitan Rogge relented and the boarding party were informed.
The SS Automedon of the Blue Funnel Line. Photo courtesy of www.wrecksite.eu
Second Officer Donald Stewart had kept the German boarding party from discovering the strongroom but, when Leutnant Ulrich Mohr asked he be shown to the room where the luggage was kept, Stewart was crestfallen. Stored in the same room were 125 British mailbags.