Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - "FS-257" i whakatakotoria i te 1944 e Wheeler Shipbuilding, Whitestone, New York, whanga nama 71, mo te tuku ki te United States Army. I te 24 o Hune 1944 i tukuna te kaipuke kaipuke a te US Coast Guard ki New York me Lt. G. P. Hammond, USCG hei rangatira rangatira. I te 26 o Pipiri ka wehe atu a "FS-257" ki te tonga ki te hauauru o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa e mahi ana i reira ma nga taunga ki Leyte
He aha? I te Hōngongoi o te tau 1945 ka rere te kaipuke i te taha o te motu o Maripipi, ka awhinahia mai i te takutai e "FS-406".