In August 1915, Kroonland's arrival in New York was delayed a day by a Gaillard Cut slide.[78] In early September, both ships were delayed ten days while waiting for the canal to be dredged after another slide.[79] In early October, another landslide in the Gaillard Cut[80]—this one in excess of 1,000,000 cubic yards (760,000 m3) of mud and dirt[81]—closed the canal, and it was expected that it might remain closed for as long as ten months.[82] Kroonland was en route to the canal from San Francisco, while Finland was at the canal's eastern terminus, Colón.