Reacquired As Training Ship
She returned to Coast Guard service in 1941 and was overhauled. In 1942 she was turned over to the state of Pennsylvania for use in training merchant and naval cadets from the maritime academies of the states of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York. Renamed Keystone State, she stayed in that service through 1948.
She was then returned to the Maritime Commission and laid up until she was sold for scrap in Baltimore in 1950.
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