[2][3][note 1] The ship was first based in San Francisco, but later engaged in coastal surveys off the Lesser Antilles and coast of Central America.

[1] Colonel Armond Peterson was acquired and converted by the United States Navy and redesignated as Light Cargo Ship Palm Beach (AKL-45) on 18 June 1966.

She was converted to a Banner class environmental research ship at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and reclassified as AGER-3.

The Palm Beach was commissioned on 13 October 1967 and served two years as an ELINT/SIGINT ship, deploying in the Mediterranean and in the North Sea.

[1] She was sold to a private owner, then resold to a Panamanian company and renamed MV Oro Verde.