Roy Berryman Edwards, RN, DSO, BEM defusing a German TMA-1 magnetic influence naval mine that detonated on Corton sands near Lowestoft.

He was also involved with the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia with collections at those institutions benefiting from cruises of Elsie Fenimore.

On 17 August 1942, in Washington, DC, Elsie Fenimore was renamed John M. Howard and commissioned 1 September 1942 with assignment to the Explosives Investigation Laboratory (EIL), renamed December 1944 as Ordnance Investigation Laboratory (OIL), located at Stump Neck, Maryland.

[3] The ship was used for ordnance experiments in the Potomac River, Chesapeake Bay and various Atlantic coast ports.

[2] The vessel was returned to the owner and resumed the name Elsie Fenimore with Johnson engaged in even more photographic and scientific work.

[1] In an announcement dated 2018 the charter and tour company Windy Venue, operating in New York City, noted they were acquiring Kick Back on the west coast and refitting the vessel as Elsie Fenimore.