 "S. B.Hunt" was allocated and delivered for operation under a bareboat agreement to the Navy 8 January 1945 at Pearl Harbor, and commissioned the same day with Lieutenant R. S. Green, USNR, in command.designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, The ship was renamed "Flambeau", designated (IX-912), to become the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for a flaming torch.