From the "Angora" he was placed in command of the Sixth Light cruiser Squadron's . In this period he was present to witness the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet. He commanded the "Cassandra" as part of the Allied Intervention in Russia. It was during this operation that she was sunk on 5 December 1918 by a sea mine in the Baltic with the loss of 11 of her crew. The wreck of HMS "Cassandra" was discovered in 2010 by the Estonian Navy.