(Vessels in escort.) _Corsair_, _Noma_, destroyers _Balch_, _Winslow_, _Sampson_, _Porter_, _Drayton_, _Parker_. March 25-27. (Eastbound to Gironde.) Ship of convoy: _Mallory_. (Vessels in escort.) _Corsair_, _Noma_, _Wakiva_, destroyers _Rowan_, _Winslow_, _Benham_. April 3-4. (Eastbound to Gironde.) Ships in convoy: _Powhatan_, _Martha Washington_, _El Occidente_. (Vessels in escort.) _Corsair_, _Noma_, destroyers _Duncan_, _Caldwell_, _Sampson_, _Winslow_, _Parker_, _Connyngham_. April 8-22. _Corsair_ acting as communication ship, at Verdon, and overhauling machinery at Bordeaux. April 24-27. (Westbound from Verdon.) Ships in convoy: _Indiana_, _Clare_, _Alexander Kielland_, _Daphne_, _Lyderhom_, _Peter H. Crowell_, _Canto_, _Kentuckian_, _Hunwood_, _Seattle_, _Oregon_, _Californian_, _Mocassin_, _Munindies_, _Munaires_, _Lake Tahoe_, _Santa Rosalia_, _Drake_, _Amphion_, _Oregonian_, _Newton_. (Vessels in escort.) _Corsair_, _Aphrodite_, _Nokomis_, _Wakiva_, _Rivoli_ (F). May 5-9. (Westbound from Verdon.) Ships in convoy: _Mesopotamia_, _Jean_, _West Wind_, _Guantanamo_, _Monticello_, _Cristobal_, _Margaret_, _American_, _Iroquois_, _Chian_, _Artemis_, _Buenaventura_, _Sudbury_, _Lamertin_, _Edith_, _Nyanza_, _Amiral Grouse_, _Ariadne_. (Vessels in escort.) _Corsair_, _Aphrodite_, _Wakiva_, _Rivoli_ (F). May 13-16. (Westbound from Verdon.) Ships in convoy: _El Capitan_, _Munsano_, _Castleman_, _Bergdalen_, _Westerner_, _Clara_, _Vaarli_, _Lake Placid_, _Gusta Vigiland_, _Winnebago_, _Luckenbach_, _Joseph Cudahy_, _Saxolin_, _Robert H. Thomas_, _Quincy_, _Thorwald Halvorson_, _Andre_. (Vessels in escort.) _Corsair_, _Aphrodite_, _Nokomis_, _Rivoli_ (F). May 21-23. (Westbound from Verdon.) Ships in convoy: _Matsonia_, _Powhatan_, _Martha Washington_, _El Oriente_, _Minnesotan_. (Vessels in escort.) _Corsair_, destroyers _Wadsworth_, _Nicholson_, _Monaghan_, _Roe_. May 27-30. (Westbound from Verdon.) Ships in convoy: _Shoshonee_, _Crown of Seville_, _Walter Munson_, _Tunica_, _West Arrow_, _East Gate_, _Charlton Hall_, _Luciline_, _Absaroka_, _Westbridge_, _Corozal_, _Lorna_, _Westward_, _Pensacola_, _Millinocket_, _Darnholm_, _Admiral Neilly_, _Elmore_, _Sagua_, _Tamano_, _Texas_, _New York_. (Vessels in escort.) _Corsair_, _Aphrodite_, _Nokomis_ _Aisne_ (F). Industriously employed in this service with the convoys, the _Corsair_ encountered no slant of misfortune until June. Then came the loss of the fine cargo steamer _Californian_ with holds and decks full of several million dollars worth of supplies for the American Army in France. This disaster was not the result of submarine attack. The ship was unlucky enough to bump a German mine about fifty miles off the entrance of the Gironde River while nearing port with the convoy and escort.