As of 2014[update],[1] Comodoro Manuel Azueta remained in active service as a training vessel for Mexico's Gulf Fleet.

After serving on the USS Tennessee for two years, in 1934 he received orders to report to aviation flight training in Pensacola, FL.

During the Battle of the Coral Sea on 7 May 1942, he attacked the Japanese aircraft carrier Shōhō and his torpedo contributed to that ship's sinking.

Assigned to protect ocean commerce from submarines, Hurst departed Norfolk with her first convoy 14 December 1943, stopped at Casablanca, and returned to New York 24 January 1944.

She then conducted gunnery and antisubmarine warfare exercises in Casco Bay, Maine, before sailing with another convoy from New York 23 February.

Enemy action was not the only hazard on such voyages as two days out of New York merchant vessels El Coston and Murfreesboro collided and sank during a heavy gale, the survivors being taken on board one of the escort ships.

Reassigned to the Pacific Fleet for these last months of the war, she transited the Panama Canal and sailed for Pearl Harbor via San Diego, California, arriving at the Hawaiian port on 26 July 1945.

Hurst entered New York harbor 10 December 1945, sailed to Green Cove Springs, Florida, and was decommissioned there on 1 May 1946.

[1] In 2001, the ship reverted to her original Mexican Navy name of Commodoro Manuel Azueta, was reclassed as a destroyer with the new pennant number of D111, and used primarily as a training vessel for Mexico's Gulf Fleet.

Commodoro Manuel Azueta was subsequently stripped and all contaminants were removed prior to disposal as an artificial reef.