MON 18 DEC 1939
Destroyers Greer (DD-145) and Upshur (DD-144) relieve destroyers Ellis (DD-154) and Cole (DD-155) of shadowing German passenger liner Columbus. Later that same day, heavy cruiser Tuscaloosa (CA-37) replaces the destroyers in trailing the passenger ship.
U.S. freighter Meanticut, detained by British authorities at Gibraltar the previous day, is released.
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