High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS West Compo (ID-3912) was a cargo ship for the United States Navy in 1919. The ship was built in 1919 as SS West Compo, a steam-powered cargo ship for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) as part of the West boats, a series of steel-hulled cargo ships built on the West Coast of the United States for the World War I war effort. She was the 20th ship built by Northwest Steel in Portland, Oregon. She was commissioned into the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS) of the United States Navy in January 1919. After one overseas trips for the Navy, she was decommissioned in May 1919 and returned to the USSB.