sentences:  She then escorted eight LST's across the Gulf of Mexico to Balboa, before she transited the canal on 18 June.She departed the Panama Canal Zone on the 24th, but her onward routing was cancelled; and she put back into port soon thereafter.She conducted local operations out of Balboa into July, after which time she transported a cargo of diesel fuel oil to Baltra Island, in the Galapagos group, to alleviate a critical fuel shortage there.