following several days of trials, "pcs-1376" departed long island for shakedown training in the vicinity of cuba. at the conclusion of the cruise in august, she reported for duty as a school ship at the submarine chaser school located at miami, florida. the warship did double duty until the end of 1943 conducting anti-submarine patrols at night and training submarine chaser nucleus crews in the daytime. on new year's day 1944, she discontinued her nightly anti-submarine patrols and concentrated on preparing crews to man new submarine chasers. on 1 october 1944, she also gave up training duty but continued to support the schools mission by acting as an escort for larger ships conducting the actual at-sea training. that type of duty lasted until the cessation of hostilities of world war ii in august 1945, at which time she resumed actual onboard training.