Don tallafawa harin da kuma yadda ya kamata samar da dakarunsa kafin a sami dusar ƙanƙara mai yawa, Sultan Abdulmecid ya ba da umarnin rundunar jiragen ruwa, jiragen ruwa da sufuri don kafa wata hanyar samar da kayan aiki ga rundunar Ottoman a Georgia. Ba za a iya dakatar da motar ba, sojojin ruwan Rasha sun kasance a Sevastopol. Abdulmecid ya ba da umarnin karo na biyu da Osman Pasha ya yi umurni, amma a wannan lokacin ya kasance a ƙarshen Nuwamba kuma an tilasta wa rundunar jiragen ruwa su nemi wuraren zama na hunturu. Ya ƙare a Sinop, ya shiga cikin jirgin ruwa mai suna Kaid Zafer wanda ya kasance wani ɓangare na wani jirgi na baya, kuma ya haɗu da jirgin ruwa mai suna Taif daga karamin jirgin ruwa. 'Yan Ottoman sun so su aika da jiragen ruwa zuwa Sinop, amma jakadan Birtaniya a Black Sea, Viscount Stratford na Red, ya kara da Constantin Nakhim Nakhimov, wanda ya kammala wannan aikin, kuma ya ci gaba da aiki a cikin jirgin ruwa na Rasha. Daga ranar 23 ga watan Nuwamba, sai aka aika da jirgin ruwa na Rasha tare da jiragen ruwa na
nemi wuraren zama na hunturu