World War II Service
During November, the salvage ship was fitted out at Stockton and at San Francisco, California. Early in December, she sailed to San Diego, California, for shakedown training and salvage operations. Anchor left the U.S. West Coast soon after the beginning or 1944, bound for Hawaii. Upon her arrival at Pearl Harbor on the 11th, she underwent a month of repair work and then was assigned to "ready duty," which involved standing by the entrance buoys to the Pearl Harbor channel and giving assistance when necessary to passing vessels. The ship also conducted torpedo recovery duty.
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