 On 30 November, she was involved in a collision with .At Boston, she was commissioned into the United States Navy on 24 January 1945, with Lieutenant D. O. Newton, USNR, in command.Between 30 January 1945 and 4 February she was outfitted at Philadelphia Navy Yard for special experimental work for the U.S Navy Bureau of Ships, and for the next five years carried out tests in the area of Cape May, New Jersey, and Cape Henlopen, Delaware.