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The merchant navy (Volume 2) - Hurd, Archibald, Sir The loss of shipping from the submarine campaign was again comparatively light in the month of February ; seven vessels, of 24,059 tons, were sunk with a loss of thirtyfour lives, as compared with five, of 27,974 tons, in the preceding month, when the death-roll was twenty-eight. The activities of the enemy raider Mowe, in association with sinkings on mines and the destruction of a small vessel off the Kentish Knock by a Zeppelin, raised the casualties to twenty-six ships, of 75,860 tons, and the death-roll leapt up to 291. For this sudden upward movement, the destruction of the Maloja (12,431 tons) CH. xiv] A GALLANT SACRIFICE 293 by a mine two miles south from Dover Pier, with a casualtylist of 122, was mainly responsible. The Empress of Fort William (2,181 tons) and the Thornaby (1,732 tons) met a similar fate, the master of the latter ship, as well as eighteen of his crew,being killed.