class C. F. Conway and near loss of rescuers. With some repair, Maui proceeded to sea later on 21 April and zig zagged unaccompanied using full power on her starboard engine and half on her port engine the ship rejoined the convoy on 28 April bound for Brest, France and completion of her first wartime crossing. By the first anniversary of the ship's commissioning, 6 March 1919, she had made seven round trips to France and was tied up at Army Pier Number 1 at Hoboken. On 3 October Edwards again took command and served throughout the war in that capacity with his rank advanced to Commander 13 May 1919. Maui was in New York when the end of the war came 11 November 1918 and joined in the early morning (New York time) celebration of ship's whistles throughout the harbor. Maui was one of the first transports with returning troops after the war. Despite orders to sail 24 December, the ship was in New York for Christmas Day, sailing 26 December and celebrating the new year of 1919 at sea headed back to France for more homeward bound troops. She arrived back in New York with harbor craft making a loud welcome and docking to a large Army band celebrating her New York arrival 25 January 1919 with 3,000 troops for demobilization through the New York Port of Embarkation. The next trip, made without cargo, began on 2 February and met a gale on 10 February caused damage to the ship and loss of four men; two overboard (Boatswain E. J. Rumph and Cxwain A. J. Rousseau) and two (First Officer Lt. J. Marmion & Seaman V. Lindgren) of injuries in a simultaneous accident in the damaged forecastle that also injured another five men. On 4 May troops of 109th Infantry, an element of the 28th Division, were returned to Philadelphia where the city turned out and a regatta was planned; one disrupted when Maui demonstrated full speed upstream at leaving the welcoming boats behind and arriving an hour early. Upon debarking troops Maui returned to Brest for more troops landing them for demobilization through the Newport News Port of Embarkation within twenty days. For some time the ship had been back under her merchant service officers and crew and by her tenth voyage had transported about 32,000 men to and from France with about 20,000 being men returned