 With her reconditioning complete , West Cheswald arrived in New York from Baltimore on 23 March . Although she may have been scheduled to begin her African service as early as 29 March , she sailed from New York on 11 April for the Cape Verde Islands , and from there , to Cape Town , where she arrived on 15 May . Beginning the next day , West Cheswald visited Port Elizabeth , East London , Durban , Mombasa , Tanga , and Zanzibar through 11 June . She returned to Tanga , then sailed from Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar and back on 23 and 24 June . She next made her way to Lourenço Marques , where she arrived on 3 July . From Lourenço Marques , she sailed back to Durban and Cape Town , before she began her transatlantic journey to Trinidad on 18 July . After calling at that Caribbean port , she returned to New York to complete her first circuit on 18 August . 
