 She then operated at Newport and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba until 30 April, when she departed Tompkinsville, N.Y., for the Azores.There she prepared flying boat "NC-4" for the final leg of her long transatlantic journey from New York to Europe and embarked crippled "NC-3" for return to the east coast, reaching New York on 10 June.Reassigned to the Pacific Fleet, the destroyer tender stood out from Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 19 July for the west coast.