Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - "FS-257" an saita shi a 1944 ta Wheeler Shipbuilding, Whitestone, New York, lambar jirgi mai lamba 71, don isar da shi ga Sojojin Amurka. A ranar 24 ga Yuni, 1944, an ba da umarnin jirgin ruwa na jirgin ruwa na Amurka a New York tare da Lt. G. P. Hammond, USCG a matsayin kwamandan kwamandan. A ranar 26 ga Yuni "FS-257" ya tashi zuwa Kudu maso Yammacin Pacific yana aiki a can ta hanyar saukowa a Leyte
Ka yi haƙuri. A watan Yulin 1945 jirgin ya yi tsalle a kusa da tsibirin Maripipi kuma "FS-406" ya taimaka masa daga bakin tekun.