20, and bought that year by the United States Shipping Board (USSB), who renamed her Easterner.

[4] On 12 November she was transferred from the USSB to the US Navy, and commissioned that same day as USS Easterner, with the Naval Registry Identification Number ID–3331.

Between 1 December 1918 and 8 May 1919 she made two round trip voyages between Norfolk, Virginia and French ports.

She carried general cargo for the United States Army, including railroad cars and engineering supplies.

[3] In June 1936 the US Maritime Commission was founded to succeed the USSB, and became Easterner's owner.

On 3 December one of the survivors, Third engineer Kostas Palaskas, sued John Chandris for $7,300 damages.

Mari Chandris was in port at Newport News, Virginia at the time, and the Norfolk Division of the Federal District Court attached her to the lawsuit.

Chandris claimed the sale was completed four hours before Palaskas filed his suit, and therefore the Court could not attach the ships to the case.

[10] In 1940 Mari Chandris, with a cargo of raw cotton, sailed in Convoy HG 33, which left Gibraltar on 8 June bound for Liverpool.

All of her 37 crew survived, but Mari Chandris was towed to a bay near St Mawes and sunk by gunfire.