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Before the armistice stilled the guns on the western front, Mercury made seven more round trip voyages carrying 18,542 troops to France, as well as thousands of tons of supplies. Embarking troops at Hoboken or Newport News, Va., she disembarked them at such ports as St. Nazaire, Brest, and Paulliac. The end of hostilities found her at Newport News.

Before the armistice stilled the guns on the western front, Mercury made seven more round trip voyages carrying 18,542 troops to France, as well as thousands of tons of supplies. Embarking troops at Hoboken or Newport News, Va., she disembarked them at such ports as St. Nazaire, Brest, and Paulliac. The end of hostilities found her at Newport News.

With the end of the war, the tide of troops was reversed, as the doughboys and marines returned from "over there." Mercury and the other transports which had performed such yeoman service in speeding men eastward to France now found themselves engaged in the reverse movement. Eight times, Mercury plied the Atlantic, bringing home 20,871 men. She returned to New York from her last voyage on 19 September 1919. Transferred to the Army Transport Service simultaneously with her decommissioning on 27 September 1919, she briefly served as an Army transport before being turned over to the War Shipping Board for scrapping in 1924.<ref>Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b2-list.htm]</ref>

With the end of the war, the tide of troops was reversed, as the doughboys and marines returned from "over there." Mercury and the other transports which had performed such yeoman service in speeding men eastward to France now found themselves engaged in the reverse movement. Eight times, Mercury plied the Atlantic, bringing home 20,871 men. She returned to New York from her last voyage on 19 September 1919. Transferred to the Army Transport Service simultaneously with her decommissioning on 27 September 1919, she briefly served as an Army transport before being turned over to the War Shipping Board for scrapping in 1924.<ref>[http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b2-list.htm Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]</ref>

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