Later Career
The ship then resumed her mercantile service as cargo ship SS Virginian with the American-Hawaiian Shipping Company. She served that firm, home-ported at New York City, until 1947, when she was transferred to the United States Maritime Commission and laid up. She was sold for scrapping in April 1948.
She steamed out of the Baltimore area in June 1945 in route to Italy as one of the first vessels to assist in Heifers for Relief, the precursor to Heifer International. She was crossing the Atalantic on her return to Baltimore when she learned of the surrender of the Japanese in WWII.
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