 She steamed via the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean Sea and made port at Norfolk on 10 January 1948.The oiler returned to the Mediterranean soon thereafter, transited that body of water and the Suez Canal, and arrived at the Persian Gulf port of Bahrain on 5 April.After filling her tank with petroleum products, she sailed for the east coast of the United States soon thereafter and returned home via the Mediterranean to unload at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Norfolk, via Gibraltar, before returning to the Mediterranean in the summer.