sentences:  In July, "Teal" returned to Seattle and duty with Pat-Wing 4 in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska areas.Until the end of the war, the small seaplane tender plowed the icy seas between the Aleutian Islands and along the Alaskan coast.She continued to support flying patrol boats; but the drain of warships from the Alaskan theater to other, more active areas frequently required her to be pressed into service as an escort and sometimes as a resupply transport.