USS West Compo (ID-3912)
USS West Compo (ID-3912) was a cargo ship for the United States Navy in 1919. The ship was built in 1919 as SS West Compo, a steam-powered cargo ship for the United States Shipping Board as part of the West boats, a series of steel-hulled cargo ships built on the West Coast of the United States for the World War I war effort. She was the 20th ship built by Northwest Steel in Portland, Oregon. She was commissioned into the Naval Overseas Transportation Service of the United States Navy in January 1919. After one overseas trips for the Navy, she was decommissioned in May 1919 and returned to the .
It is not known if West Compo had a civilian career after her Navy career ended. Sources conflict as to the ship's ultimate fate, but she was probably broken up in 1936 at Baltimore, Maryland.
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