She returned home at war's end with three battle stars and then entered into service for the U.S. Coast Guard before final decommissioning.

On 20 April 1944 during the second voyage German planes attacked Convoy UGS–38 at dusk off Algiers, and sank five ships, including a transport carrying 500 soldiers, and destroyer USS Lansdale (DD-426).

On the return voyage Pride together with USS Joseph E. Campbell, the French frigate Sénégalais and HMS Blankney sank the German submarine U-371, taking 49 prisoners on 4 May 1944.

She then joined a North Atlantic escort carrier group assigned to search out and destroy U-boats before they gained access to the shipping lanes.

She then escorted two transports to Liverpool, whence she steamed back across the Atlantic to Panama where she conducted submarine training exercises until late in 1945.