History
Commissioned in the US Navy as the USS Amick (DE-168) in 1943, she was mostly assigned at the Atlantic theatre doing escort duties for transatlantic convoys. She served in the Pacific theatre in the middle of 1945, and received the unconditional surrender of all Japanese forces in the northern Palaus, which was received by the Americans in the wardroom on board Amick on September 1945. Amick was reassigned back to the Atlantic Fleet on December 1945 and remained in semi-active status until her decommissioning on May 1947.
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