[5][6] During World War II Augustana Victory operated as a merchantman and was chartered to the Interocean Steamship Company of San Francisco.

In 1948 the Augustana Victory was sold by the [War Shipping Administration to the United States Lines of New York and renamed the SS American lawyer.

The US Coast Guard Squadron One chartered the SS Transcaribbean and other ships to move 17 patrol boats to the Philippines for Vietnam duty.

SS Transcaribbean was used by the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) to deliver: bulldozers, cranes, steel and cement for use by US Navy Seabees.

SS Transcaribbean wrecked and was lodged on to rocks on the small Las Cabritas inland, near Isla de Cabras, off of San Juan, Puerto Rico.