 Negotiations for the return of the ships were protracted, but on 1 November 1949 the Soviet Union finally returned "EK-19" to the U.S. Navy at Yokosuka, Japan.Reverting to her original name, "Muskogee" lay idle in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Yokosuka until the United States loaned her to the Republic of Korea on 23 October 1950.Commissioned into the Republic of Korea Navy as ROKS "Duman" (PF-61), she saw service in the Korean War.