Military Career
USS West Compo (ID-3912) was commissioned into the Naval Overseas Transportation Service on 3 February 1919 with Lieutenant Commander A. A. Modeer, in command. The ship sailed on 12 February with on a load of wheat flour and transited the Panama Canal on 1 and 2 March. After she arrived in Norfolk, Virginia, on 11 March, she replenished her fuel and stores and got underway for the Mediterranean on 14 March. West Compo arrived at Trieste on 9 April and unloaded her cargo. After taking on sand ballast, she departed on 19 April, sailing to Philadelphia via Gibraltar. She arrived at Philadelphia on 15 May, was decommissioned one week later, and returned to the .
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