 After returning to New York on 31 May by way of Reykjavík and Halifax , West Cheswald made a brief trip to Philadelphia and back before she worked her way down the East Coast to Norfolk , Virginia , where she arrived on 17 June . Sailing the next day , the cargo ship began the first of two African trips , during which she made many of the same ports as in her two 1941 voyages . On the homeward leg of her second voyage , she called at Takoradi and Freetown on the western coast of Africa in March 1943 . After returning to the Americas , West Cheswald visited Saint Thomas , San Juan , and Mayagüez in the Caribbean before returning to Philadelphia on 28 April . 
