 The aircraft operated under command of Patrick N. L. Bellinger in the area for a month and a half during the occupation of Veracruz, conducting reconnaissance and searching the surrounding sea for naval mines, supported by men from "Mississippi".In late May, the ship departed for Pensacola, where she remained until 28 June, thereafter steaming north for Hampton Roads.Greece became engaged in a naval arms race with the Ottoman Empire in the early 1910s; in 1910 the Ottomans had purchased a pair of German pre-dreadnoughts (renamed and ) and ordered dreadnought battleships from Britain in 1911 and 1914.