Her alterations completed by 27 April 1942, the ship held brief trials and then began loading stores.

There, while loading fleet issue clothing and small stores, she received word of the war's end.

There, she loaded stores and pontoons before getting underway from San Francisco Bay on the 28th.

Clavering prepared his ship at Deptford, loading enough stores to see the ship through an entire winter, should they become trapped in the ice.

She reached Pearl Harbor on the 16th and stayed there for five days loading fuel and stores before heading southwest on the 21st.

It was four in the morning when they arrived, and the place was alive with men taking down tents and loading stores and checking supplies.

There she loaded supplies, stores, ammunition and gasoline, before getting underway to return to Newfoundland on 20 June.

There she loaded passengers, stores, and extra planes for transit to Hawaii and got underway on 7 February.

This fellow took her out from the quay side after she'd finished loading stores.

The rest of that day and all night she loaded stores from the firm, and on the morrow reached Saluafata bay.