Two 25 kilowatt generators provided electrical power and a two-ton refrigeration unit was installed for ship's stores.

[1] Ulysses shuttled between Hampton Roads and the Panama Canal Zone, carrying coal to Cristobal, into 1917.

In 1937 she was converted to a Whale oil factory ship for the Western Operating Corp and her gross register tonnage was assessed at 12,056.

Finally in 1942 she was sold to the Argentinian company Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales and renamed San Blas being converted back to a tanker.

[6] This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.