By the beginning of December, 1914, the German raider was in the South Atlantic, and while there heard wireless messages exchanged between the ships of the British fleet that took part in the battle off the Falkland Islands. The bark _Isabella Browne_, flying the Russian flag, was the next ship overtaken by the _Eitel Friedrich_, on January 26, 1915. She was boarded and all of her provisions and stores were removed to the German ship; after her crew and their personal effects were taken aboard the German ship she was dynamited and sank. On that same morning the French ship _Pierre Loti_ was sighted, and while the _Prinz Eitel Friedrich_ put an end to her, after first taking off her crew, the captive crew of the _Isabella Browne_ was sent below, but was allowed to come on deck to watch the sinking of the French ship. The American ship _William P. Frye_ was sunk soon afterward, and her crew, also, was made part of the party on board the raider. After sinking the French bark _Jacobsen_ the _Prinz Eitel Friedrich_ stopped the _Thalasia_ on February 8, 1915, and let her go on her way, but on February 18 the British ships _Cindracoe_ and _Mary Ada Scott_ were sunk. On the 19th the French steamer _Floride_ was overtaken off the coast of Brazil; all persons aboard her were transferred to the German ship and most of her provisions were also taken aboard the latter; the _Floride_, the largest steamer destroyed by the German ship, was set afire and left to burn. On February 20, 1915, the British ship _Willerby_ was overtaken and nearly sank the _Prinz Eitel Friedrich_ before being boarded. As the German ship passed across the stern of the other at a short distance the British captain, knowing that the end of his own ship was near, decided to take his captor down with him. He tried to ram the German ship with the stern of his ship, but failed in the attempt. On the evening of February 20, 1915, the wireless operator of the _Prinz Eitel Friedrich_ heard British cruisers "talking" with each other, one of them being the _Berwick_. The German captain now saw that his long raiding cruise was up, for though he could replenish his stores and bunkers from captured ships he could not make the many repairs which his vessel needed. To put them off at a neutral port or to let them go in one of the ships he captured would mean that his position would be reported to British ships within a week. He therefore decided to end his raiding and put in at Newport News. His vessel was interned in the American port.