sentences:  Rickover commanded "Finch" from 17 July to 5 October 1937, when the ship was primarily operating at Shanghai, China, to protect American interests during the Battle of Shanghai, the first of 22 major engagements fought between the Chinese and Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War.After training and operations with a submarine bell, "Finch" sailed from New York 9 August 1919 for Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland.Here she based for two months of duty removing the vast number of mines laid in the North Sea during World War I.