Assigned to NOTS, Nansemond departed New York on 4 February laden with Army supplies. She arrived St. Nazaire on 16 February, discharged her cargo, and sailed on 26 February for home carrying returning troops of the AEF, arriving Newport News on 11 March 1919. During the next four months Nansemond continued in the Transport Service returning troops and convalescents of the AEF, making one turnabout run in thirty-two days. Upon returning to New York in August she decommissioned on the 25th and returned to United States Shipping Board. She was scrapped in 1924.