 On 15 July 1945, "EK-3" departed Cold Bay in company with nine of her sister ships – "EK-1" (ex-"Charlottesville"), "EK-2" (ex-"Long Beach"), "EK-4" (ex-"Machias"), "EK-5" (ex-"San Pedro"), "EK-6" (ex-"Glendale"), "EK-7" (ex-"Sandusky"), "EK-8" (ex-"Coronado"), "EK-9" (ex-"Allentown"), and "EK-10" (ex-"Ogden") – bound for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Soviet Union.