For more than 22 years she operated out of Norfolk from Boston, Massachusetts, to Charleston, South Carolina, towing ships and targets and performing yard, harbor, and salvage duty.

While steaming off Cape Henry 17 and 18 November, she helped to free grounded USS Melville; and during towing operations along the New England coast 11 to 13 December, she searched for SS Suffolk, disabled in heavy seas.

Although harassed by unfavorable weather and German V-1 robot-bombs, she towed barges and landing craft from Lee-on-Solent, Falmouth, Plymouth, Portland, and other English ports to St. Laurent, Arromanches, Cherbourg, and Calais, France.

While anchored at Dungeness, England on 29 June, she was slightly damaged by a V-1 robot-bomb that exploded close aboard after being shot down by British fighters.

Steaming via Bermuda, Cuba, and the Panama Canal, she reached San Diego, California on 31 July as the Navy's final blows against Japan brought the war in the Pacific to a close.