 Following the completion of training for her Soviet crew, "Bayonne" was decommissioned on 2 September 1945 at Cold Bay and transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease immediately along with her sister ship .Commissioned into the Soviet Navy immediately, "Bayonne" was designated as a "storozhevoi korabl" ("escort ship") and renamed EK-25 in Soviet service.She soon departed Cold Bay bound for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Soviet Union.