Postwar Service
After the Japanese surrender, John L. Clem was reconverted to a transport and used to carry workers between Jamaica and Florida.
She was turned over to the War Shipping Administration early in 1946 and later assigned to the U.S. Public Health Service. In December of that year she was laid up in the Maritime Commission's National Defense Reserve Fleet at Brunswick, Georgia, under her previous name of Irwin. The ship was sold for scrapping in January 1948.
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