 "PCS-1450" made a shakedown cruise in the Caribbean Sea, then operated between Key West, Florida, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a patrol and escort ship until June 1945.She then was transferred to the Hawaiian Islands, where she served from late July 1945 until February 1946 before returning to the United States.After undergoing conversion into a survey ship, "PCS-1450" was decommissioned in August 1946 and transferred to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey the same month.