 That command modified the vessel as a communications ship for use by the Army Signal Corps.On 12 December 1943 the ship became part of the Army operated radio communication fleet joining the other sailing ships "Volador" and the previously operating, Australian registered vessels, "Harold" and "Argosy Lamal".A crew of mixed Army, Navy and Australian civilian personnel operated these predecessors of the CP, or Command Post, ships in the Port Moresby, Woodlark and Laee-Salamau areas.