 In port when the Armistice with Germany was signed on 11 November , El Occidente loaded 1 @,@ 467 short tons ( 1 @,@ 331 t ) of cargo and 800 animals for a second Navy voyage . Departing on 17 November for Verdun , the ship arrived there on 19 December . Returning to Baltimore for repairs and alterations which included the removal of her armament and the stalls for animal cargo , El Occidente sailed again on 15 January 1919 for Bordeaux where she unloaded cargo for the Army of Occupation and embarked 90 passengers for return to the United States . She was decommissioned at New York on 18 March 1919 , and delivered to the United States Shipping Board the same day . 
