In the meantime, while "Whipple" conducted her patrols, the situation in the Russian Civil War was changing. "Whipple" convoyed the disabled American steamer SS "Haddon" into Constantinople and later fueled at Constanţa where she learned that Russian Bolshevik troops were approaching the Crimea. Baron General Pyotr Wrangel, commanding the White Russian forces in the area, pulled his force back to Sevastopol in a rear-guard action, from where the Whites evacuated to sea in a wide variety of craft to escape the oncoming Bolshevik forces.