 In October the same year, "Pennsylvanian" delivered of steel parts for the Hale Telescope then under construction at the Palomar Observatory outside San Diego.The ship had picked up the $375,000 cargo in Philadelphia before sailing for San Diego.At some point after the United States entered World War II, "Pennsylvanian" was requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration (WSA), and, as with her pre-U.S. Navy service in World War I, she continued to be operated by American-Hawaiian.