The ship was built in 1944 for the US Navy and served in World War II in Pearl Harbor delivering ammunition to naval vessels.[3] She was acquired by the US Coast Guard in 1946 serving on the Alaskan coastline until the 1970s.[3] The vessel was later relocated to Mississippi as a buoy tender until her retirement from the Coast Guard in 1998.[3] The vessel was purchased by Benoit Vulliet for oceanographic research,[5] and years later, he donated it to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.[3][6]
In late 2021 because of age Sea Shepherd had the vessel decommissioned and scrapped in Mexico. Sea Shepherd plans to acquire a new vessel in 2022 to replace it on its Central America patrols.