[3] The War Kitimat was run aground shortly after her launch, and was repaired in Victoria, BC.

When peace came she was redundant, and was sold, in 1919, to the Belgian shipping firm Lloyd Royal Belge S.A., which renamed her Serbier.

On 12 January 1920 she was en route from Cartagena and Oran, bound for Antwerp, carrying zinc ore and general cargo, when she sprang a leak 80 nautical miles off Penmarch, Finistère.

With her engine room flooded she was abandoned by her crew and left to sink.

Her crew were rescued by the French vessel SS Docteur Pierre Benoit.