She was recommissioned in 1950 after the outbreak of the Korean War and served with the Atlantic Fleet, including a deployment in the Mediterranean Sea during which she was renamed USS Pima County.

The ASN carried out a refurbishment at Smith's Dock Company after which she served on routes from Great Britain to Northern Ireland and continental Europe.

She was sold again in 1977 to Mareantes Mundial Armadora and, under the name Nickel Ferry, was operated by Andy International on routes in Central America.

[1][4] LST-1081 sailed from Ambridge by the end of January for New Orleans from where she commenced a shakedown cruise in St. Andrews Bay, Florida on 7 February.

Upon completion of the cruise she was loaded with cargo and dispatched to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii which she reached on 4 April, having transited the Panama Canal on 12 March.

LST-1081 left Pearl Harbor on 19 April and was employed on logistics duties during the later stages of the Pacific War, transferring supplies between various islands.

LST-1081 departed from San Diego on 13 June 1951 and, travelling via the Panama Canal, Puerto Rico and Morehead City, North Carolina reached her new base at Norfolk, Virginia on 12 July.

[2] She was transferred to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet and moved to Green Cove Springs, Florida where she was decommissioned for the final time on 12 December 1956.

She was renamed Baltic Ferry and towed across the Atlantic to the yards of the Smith's Dock Company on the River Tyne.

[3] At least one route ran to Belfast Harbour where, lacking deck-mounted cranes, she was unable to unload unit loads prior to the construction of a new terminal there.

In 1966 she operated between Tilbury, Essex and Felixstowe, Suffolk until early July when she switched to the Preston, Lancashire to Larne, County Antrim route.

[8] She was bought by Mareantes Mundial Armadora in 1977, renamed Nickel Ferry, and operated by Andy International on routes in Central America as a 1,908-gross register ton, Panamanian-flagged freighter.