 On 1 January 1948 "Argentina" was restored to Moore-McCormack, which reported that her first two voyages were "booked full".On 14 January 1948 "Argentina" was given the US Navy Reserve pennant.On the same day her library was dedicated in memory of Henry Olin Billings, a former Moore-McCormack employee who was killed on 1 November 1942 when his command, the Liberty Ship , was torpedoed off the coast of French Equatorial Africa.