The Labor Department included Goldman and Berkman among 249 aliens it deported en masse, mostly people with only vague associations with radical groups who had been swept up in government raids in November.[114] Buford, a ship the press nicknamed the "Soviet Ark," sailed from the Army's New York Port of Embarkation on December 21.[115][116] Some 58 enlisted men and four officers provided security on the journey, and pistols were distributed to the crew.[115][117] Most of the press approved enthusiastically. The Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote: "It is hoped and expected that other vessels, larger, more commodious, carrying similar cargoes, will follow in her wake."[118] The ship landed her charges in Hanko, Finland on Saturday, January 17, 1920.[119] Upon arrival in Finland, authorities there conducted the deportees to the Russian frontier under a flag of truce.[120][121]