 At New York, "West Lianga" took on a load of 6,882 tons of materiel for the United States Army and a deck-load of 32 trucks and departed for France in a convoy.After unloading her cargo at Bordeaux, she returned to New York on 16 October.After voyage repairs, she loaded another 6,685 tons of cargo for the Quartermaster Corps and departed for Europe on 3 November.