Based out of two locations in North Carolina and then Portsmouth, Virginia, during her Coast Guard career, the vessel was then used as an icebreaker by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

[2] Commissioned on 3 January 1943, she was assigned to the 5th District of the Coast Guard and operated out of Morehead City, North Carolina.

[4] More specifically, she patrolled a boat race at Washington, D.C. in 1955, helped search for an aircraft off Stingray Point in 1956, aided a grounded yacht in 1958, and served as an icebreaker off Crisfield, Maryland, in 1959 and 1961.

It was also used to transport buoy weights are marked natural resource areas, and can provide evacuation services for Smith Island in case weather necessitates that.

In March 2020, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced that the vessel would be retired, as maintenance was becoming difficult, partially because many of the major parts of the ship such as the engines had seen their manufacture discontinued decades earlier.