 Complete the following phrase:  Upon completion of a short overhaul, Keokuk was converted to a net layer and, reclassified AKN-4, departed Norfolk, Virginia, on 23 November for the Pacific. She arrived at Tarawa on 3 February 1944 after a months stay at Pearl Harbor, and immediately commenced net laying operations in the Marshall Islands. She continued this service until 12 April when she cleared Eniwetok to load new net at San Francisco, California. Keokuk returned to Kwajalein on 9 June, and departed two days later to engage in the 