U.S. Navy Career
Upon completion of West Corum in February 1919, three months after the end of fighting in World War I, she was handed over to the United States Navy for use in the Naval Overseas Transportation Service on 10 February. She was commissioned as USS West Corum (ID-3982) the same day with Lieutenant Commander Alfred G. Thompson, USNRF, in command.
West Corum took on a load of wheat flour and sailed on 24 February for the East Coast. After transiting the Panama Canal, she arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, on 19 March. Sailing soon after, she headed for Constantinople, Turkey, where she delivered her cargo on 18 April. On 1 May, West Corum set out from Constantinople for the United States via Gibraltar. She arrived in Norfolk on 6 June and was decommissioned three days later and returned to the .
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