sentences:  She subsequently participated in the final sweep of the mine barrage – the climactic sweep which detonated five mines, cut loose 47, and destroyed 50 – into late September 1919.Once the arduous and dangerous job was complete, "Flamingo" departed Kirkwall on 1 October 1919 and, after a voyage which took her via Plymouth and Devonport, England; Brest, France; Lisbon, Portugal; the Azores; and Bermuda, eventually arrived at Tompkinsville on 20 November 1919.The pause at Tompkinsville was a brief one, however, for "Flamingo" was underway five days later, on 25 November 1919, bound for the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine.