Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - "FS-257" yakaiswa pasi muna 1944 neWheeler Shipbuilding, Whitestone, New York, nhamba yechikepe 71, nokuda kwokuendeswa kuUnited States Army. Pana 24 June 1944 U.S. Coast Guard manned freighter yakatumirwa kuNew York naLt. G. P. Hammond, USCG semukuru mukuru. Pana 26 June "FS-257" yakaenda kuSouthwest Pacific ichishanda ikoko kupfurikidza nokumhara paLeyte
. Muna July 1945 ngarava yacho yakamhara pedyo nechitsuwa cheMaripipi uye yakabatsirwa kubva pamhenderekedzo ne "FS-406".