 Interrupted only by a resupply and reinforcement run to Johnston Island at the end of December 1941, it remained in the waters off Oahu into the spring of 1942.In late April 1942, "Navajo" sailed to Canton Island where it and other vessels attempted the unsuccessful salvage of the 502 ft. troop ship SS "President Taylor" grounded on a coral reef.Then "Navajo" returned to Pearl Harbor whence the boat got underway for the war zone on 12 July 1942.