Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I mahi a Kessing i Washington tae noa ki te Haratua 1919, i te wa i whakahaua ai ia ki te Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation i Quincy, Massachusetts, i reira i riro ai ia i te mahi e pa ana ki te whakakao i te kaipuke USS "Meyer". I whakahaeretia te "Meyer" i te marama o Tihema o taua tau, a, i uru atu ki te tirotiro i te takutai o California me Alaska me te haerenga ki te Karipiana i te wa o te
te raruraru i Haiti. I whakawhitihia a Kessing ki te kaipuke kaipuke USS "Reuben James" i te marama o Noema o te tau 1920 hei kaitohutohu whakahaere, ka uru ki te haerenga ki te Moana-a-Kiwa me nga tuunga i Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia me Le Havre, France.