Reclassified as a "patrol craft sweeper" (PCS) in April 1943 and redesignated PCS-1405, she was launched on 21 August 1943 and commissioned as USS PCS-1405 on 1 February 1944.

[1] PCS-1450 made a shakedown cruise in the Caribbean Sea, then operated between southern Florida, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a patrol and escort ship until June 1945.

She then was transferred to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where she served until February 1946 before returning to the United States.

[1] Bowie served on hydrographic survey duties along the United States West Coast and in Alaska until 1 February 1967, when she was decommissioned.

She was photographed as recently as 2003 as MV Bowie in Slatery Bay near Powell River, British Columbia, Canada.