home islands. Then, in August, she departed for an availability at Leyte. There when hostilities ceased, she returned to Okinawa at the end of the month and in September resumed sweeping operations, this time to clear Japanese waters for the arrival of occupation forces and the resumption of peacetime maritime traffic. Off Shikoku during early September, she shifted to Honshū at midmonth and during October operated in the Ise Wan area. On in November, she added the responsibility of communications and operational headquarter, CTG 52.8, to her duties and on 17 December she headed back to the United States. Post-War operations The ship arrived at San Diego on 17 January 1946. The following month, she continued on to the U.S. East Coast arriving at Norfolk on 21 February. For the next year and a half she operated with the Atlantic Fleet towing targets for training groups. Then ordered inactivated, she proceeded to Orange, Texas, where she decommissioned and joined the Reserve Fleet on 23 December 1947. Operations as a survey ship Recommissioned 15 February 1950, Requisite was assigned to hydrographic survey duties. She reported to the Atlantic Fleet for duty on 1 March and for the next three years she spent the winter survey season operating in the Caribbean and the warmer months off Labrador and Greenland. Reclassified AGS-18 on 18 August 1951, she discontinued her North Atlantic-Caribbean schedule in the fall of 1954. On 6 October she got underway from Norfolk; and, from 1 November 1954 to 2 February 1955, she conducted surveys from İskenderun, Turkey. Returned to Norfolk. They went west through the Panama Canal to San Diego, then to Seattle. 1955 Requisite shifted to the northern Pacific. She arrived at her new homeport, Seattle, June 1955-Captain Robert F. Hopkins, in late June and before the end of the month had commenced Arctic operations. Arrived Nome Alaska July 3 rd and some of the crew marched in the 4 th of July Parade in Nome. By mid-September she had surveyed routes from Herschel Island to Shepherd Bay, taking continuous soundings and compiling bathythermograph information and gathering core samplings every 20 miles. She continued her operations from Seattle until July 1958. Then homeported at San Francisco, California, she remained in the Pacific, ranging from the Arctic to Polynesia, to Central America until the spring of 1959. On 1 May 1959, she got underway for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Arriving on the