Reporting to Service Force Squadron 2 for duty, Seize spent a busy first month in repairs, carrying out radar jamming experiments, patrolling, and towing.

Arriving by convoy at Shanghai, China two days later on 19 September 1945, the ship assisted port activity there by searching for a lost anchor, and aiding USS Waller (DD-466) in switching berths.

[1][3] Seize’s crew was eligible for the following medals: After refitting, she was commissioned as USCGC Yocona (WAT-168), named after a river in Mississippi, and was stationed at Eureka, California and performed law enforcement, search and rescue, salvage and firefighting duties.

Whilst in Astoria, Oregon she performed search and rescue, law enforcement, firefighting, fishery patrol, oceanographic surveys, and salvage duties.

On 11 November 1955, 50 miles off Cape Lookout, Oregon in 60 to 70 miles-per-hour winds, she went to the rescue of the disabled and sinking FV Ocean Pride.

With the seas too heavy to launch lifeboats, the Yocona maneuvered alongside the fishing vessel close enough for the entire crew of thirteen to jump on board the cutter safely.

On the night of 29 September 1959 she rescued ten survivors of a downed U.S. Navy P5M-2 Marlin seaplane that had ditched 110 miles off the Oregon coast.

This was a Broken Arrow incident in that a Betty depth bomb casing was lost with the Marlin and never recovered, although it was not fitted with a nuclear core.

[4] On 12 January 1961 Yocona participated in the search, rescue and recovery attempt of FV Mermaid, CG-52301 the Triumph, CG-36454 and CG-40564 off Peacock Spit at Cape Disappointment, WA.

During the mid-1970s Yocona deployed five environmental buoys for U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from the Gulf of Alaska to San Diego, California.

She was transferred to Kodiak, Alaska in August, 1983 for search and rescue, law enforcement, firefighting, fishery patrol, and salvage duties.

The next day, 28 February 1988, she fought a fire in the cargo hold of the fish processing ship Tempest, which was anchored in Akutan Bay, Alaska.

In March 1995, Yocona earned the Pacific Area Cutter Achievement Award at San Diego, California with a final average 98% overall rating.

In November 1995, Yocona participated in a fisheries law enforcement exchange with Russian Maritime Border Guard officers who were on a training visit in Kodiak, Alaska.

As the Alaska patrol experts, YOCONA's valuable input to the Seventeenth District has been routinely used for threat assessment planning and improved intelligence products for all cutters.

In March of 1995, YOCONA earned the Pacific Area Cutter Achievement Award at San Diego, California with a final average 98% overall rating.

In November 1995, YOCONA participated in a professional fisheries law enforcement exchange with the Russian Maritime Border Guard Officers on a training visit in Kodiak, Alaska.

In June 1999 Yocona was photographed by Mr Joe Lewis of the National Association Fleet Tug Sailors (NAFTS) tied up at the north side of Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and was supposedly to be made a museum ship.