 She completed the installation of approximately a mile and a half of netting on 11 July and remained in the Puget Sound area tending nets for the remainder of 1942.Placed in full commission on 2 January 1943, "Boxwood" resumed her tending tasks after her overhaul at Todd, Seattle, shipyard and carried them out through the spring of 1943.Departing the Seattle area on 26 June 1943, "Boxwood" relieved at Adak, in the Aleutians, and assisted in the installation of antitorpedo net lines at Adak and Sand Bay, and helped in laying fleet mooring buoys.