The French Navy suffered a mutiny in 1919 but operations were carried until the end of the conflict.

According to French sources, the French sloop (avisos) Le Scarpe imprudently advanced into the territorial waters of the red Russia near Novorossiysk during a routine patrol in the Black Sea.

[1] The Captain wanted to sail to Nikolaiev to collect information about procuring supplies.

[2] The French ship encountered the Soviet floating battery Krasnaya Zarya near Ochakov; during the subsequent fight she was damaged and surrendered.

This happened near the end of the Russian Civil War, and the ship was soon returned.