In fact, Barbican did not depart Pearl Harbor and head for the western Pacific until 17 August 1945, two days after the Japanese capitulation ended hostilities.

On her way west, the auxiliary minelayer made one stop at Midway Island before arriving at Saipan in the Marianas on 20 September 1945.

For a little more than a month, she served as tender and flagship for a squadron of motor minesweepers (YMS), performing those duties both at Saipan and at Okinawa.

That assignment lasted until 24 February 1946, when she headed back to the United States reporting to the Commandant, 12th Naval District, late in April 1946 for duty pending inactivation.

She was initially stationed at Miami, Florida, and was assigned to tend aids to navigation (ATON) and conduct search and rescue (SAR) and law enforcement (LE) operations when required.

In heavy seas, darkness and a snow storm Ivy rescued 68 crewmen from the Japanese vessel, which had jettisoned logs in an effort to stay afloat.

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