 The situation was eventually defused by returning the French squadron back to France, one of the mutineers' primary demands.In the meantime, "Mirabeau" had run ground and been badly damaged in February and was refloated in April and taken into Sevastopol for repairs, but the imminent threat of the Bolshevik conquest of the city forced her to be towed out of port by "Justice" on 5 May.She took the crippled battleship to Constantinople, where they stayed from 7 to 15 May before departing for France.