Evansville steamed down the Mississippi River and after calling at Mobile, Alabama, reached Charleston, South Carolina, on 31 December 1944.

Earmarked for transfer to the Soviet Navy in Project Hula, a secret program at Cold Bay in the Territory of Alaska for the transfer of U.S. Navy ships to the Soviet Navy in anticipation of the Soviet Union joining the war against Japan, Evansville departed New York City on 9 July 1945, transited the Panama Canal, and steamed to San Diego, California and Seattle, Washington, before proceeding to Cold Bay.

[6] In February 1946, the United States began negotiations for the return of ships loaned to the Soviet Union for use during World War II.

[7] Reverting to her original name, Evansville lay idle in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Yokosuka until the U.S. Navy recommissioned her for service in the Korean War on 29 July 1950.

[8] Reclassified as an "auxiliary stock craft" (YAC) and renamed YAC-21,[8] the ship was decommissioned on 31 March 1976 and returned to U.S. custody on 15 October 1976 for disposal.