Original sentence: Both cruisers are active in the last days of June covering Soviet defensive mining operations, but Maxim Gorky and her escorts run into the German-laid "Apolda" minefield on the 23rd and Maxim Gorky and the destroyer Gnevny both lose their bows, but Gnevny sinks, while Maxim Gorky makes it to port before being transferred, with assistance, to Tallinn and later to Kronstadt
Edited sentence: Both cruisers are active in the last days of June covering Soviet defensive mining operations, but Maxim Gorky and her escorts run into the German-laid "Apolda" minefield on the 23rd and Maxim Gorky and the destroyer Gnevny both lose their bows, but Gnevny sank, while Maxim Gorky makes it to port before being transferred, with assistance, to Tallinn and later to Kronstadt