Her keel was laid down in 1919 by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, in Chester, Pennsylvania with completion August 1919.

Hunt was allocated and delivered for operation under a bareboat agreement to the Navy 8 January 1945 at Pearl Harbor, and commissioned the same day with Lieutenant R. S. Green, USNR, in command.

[2][3] Flambeau was converted for use as an oil storage ship in which capacity she served at Saipan until July, and then at Iwo Jima.

She sailed from Pearl Harbor 30 December for Norfolk, Virginia, where she was decommissioned on 5 April 1946, and returned to the War Shipping Administration.

[3] On the date of return to WSA the ship went into the Reserve Fleet at Lee Hall, Virginia and was sold for scrap on 27 December 1946.