 During this period, from 1932 to 1934, future USCG Commandant Edwin J. Roland served aboard "Escanaba" as gunnery officer and navigator.In the winter of 1934, "Escanaba " rescued the crew of the lake freighter after running aground at Muskegon.With the outbreak of war in 1941, "Escanaba"'s home port was shifted to Boston, and she was assigned to the Greenland Patrol, performing escort duty and search and rescue operations in the North Atlantic.