She arrived via Pearl Harbor at one of the most important bodies of water in the Pacific area at that time, Leyte Gulf, on 10 November.

Departing for the United States, she touched at Manus and Pearl before arriving at Terminal Island, California, on 10 January 1946.

During the ship's four months on weather patrol in the Bering Straits and off the coast of Alaska it encountered the tsunami generated by the 1 April 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake.

After performing the demanding and essential task of weather picket for two separate periods, Hutchinson sailed to San Francisco, California, and decommissioned there on 15 April 1946.

She was then recommissioned a Coast Guard vessel on loan from the Navy, and sailed westward to take up her weather ship duties once more.