Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan shakedown a Chesapeake Bay, ta yi aiki a matsayin jirgin horo a Little Creek, Virginia, da Newport, Rhode Island. A ranar 1 ga Agusta, 1945, jirgin ya tashi zuwa Pearl Harbor ta hanyar Canal na Panama. Samun labarai game da mika wuya na Japan
A hanya, jirgin ya ci gaba zuwa yammacin Pacific. Bayan da yake dauke da manyan kaya tsakanin Pearl Harbor, Kwajalein, Guadalcanal, da Nouméa, a watan Disamba na shekara ta 1945 ya koma Amurka kuma an sanya shi ga Ma'aikatar Sufurin Jiragen Ruwa da kuma, daga baya, Ma'aikatar Sufurin Jiragen Ruwa. Kasancewa da jirgin ruwa, ya ɗauki kaya a Yammacin Pacific har zuwa ranar 25 ga Yuni, 1950.