 Attached to the naval operating base there, "Boxwood" performed utility jobs such as transporting mail and stores to nearby island bases and decommissioned the radio station at Caton Island, Alaska.During 1946, "Boxwood" made several trips carrying passengers and mail between various bases in the Alaskan Sea Frontier and the naval station at Seattle, Washington, through mid-August 1946 when she entered the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.In the fall of 1946, "Boxwood" underwent a preinactivation overhaul at the Kaiser Shipyard, Vancouver, Washington.