After her U.S. Navy career ended, she served in the United States Public Health Service as the boarding vessel USPHS Bailhache from 1919 to 1934.

Olympic was transferred to the United States Public Health Service on 13 September 1919, and on 12 November 1919 was renamed USPHS Bailhache[1] in honor of Preston H. Bailhache (1835–1919), a prominent physician of the United States Marine Hospital Service who had once served as a doctor for the family of Abraham Lincoln.

[2][3] Bailhache served with the Public Health Service at Seattle as a boarding vessel until sold to H. W. McCurdy on 10 February 1934.

[1] The United States Army acquired Moby Dick for World War II service in December 1941 and renamed her USAS Q-108.

[1] In 1949, Michael R. Uttecht of King Cove, Territory of Alaska, acquired Moby Dick and placed her in service as a cargo vessel.