 Over the course of June and July, the ships alternated between Salonika and Mudros, and later that month the fleet was transferred to Cephalonia.In August, a pro-Allied group launched a coup against the monarchy in the "Noemvriana", which the Allies sought to support.Several French ships sent men ashore in Athens on 1 December to support the coup, but they were quickly defeated by the royalist Greek Army.