 "Sprig" conducted shakedown training at Little Creek, Virginia, until 6 September when she got underway for the Pacific.She was in the Panama Canal Zone from 12 to 14 September; then headed via Acapulco, Mexico, to San Pedro, California, arriving there on the 24th.After almost two weeks on the U.S. West Coast, "Sprig" continued west on 6 October and made Pearl Harbor on the 20th.