From 21 January to 7 February 1944, Durant served as schoolship at Norfolk, Virginia, for the training of prospective crews for escort vessels.

She made eight voyages as a convoy escort to north African ports between 10 February 1944 and 12 June 1945, guarding men and supplies essential to victory in the European theater of war.

Durant sailed from Boston, Massachusetts, 9 July 1945, and conducted refresher training at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on her way to San Diego, California, where she arrived 7 August.

Four days later she got underway for Pearl Harbor, but with the end of the war in the Pacific, her stay there was brief and she returned to the east coast, arriving at New York 26 September.

Sailing from San Francisco, California, 27 May 1957, she arrived at Pearl Harbor 2 June, to begin picket duty on the Pacific barrier line.