Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service to operate under a United States Army account, Bellingham departed for San Diego, California, on the morning of 4 November 1918.

Upon arrival at Le Havre, France, on 6 March 1919, however, she discovered that congestion of the port facilities there would have made it impossible to be assigned a berth for almost two weeks.

Cleared at the station, she anchored off Tompkinsville, Staten Island, on the morning of 26 April 1919 and transferred her passengers to the submarine chaser USS SC-49.

Once again SS Bellingham, she operated commercially under the control of the Shipping Board until she was laid up on 24 July 1923 at Fort Eustis, Virginia.

During World War II she served on Lend-Lease duty in the Pacific Ocean, and underwent an overhaul in the United States.

The Soviet Union's penchant for secrecy has obscured Nevastroi's ultimate fate; She was damaged and probably sunk after hitting a naval mine on 16 August 1945.