World War II Service
After fitting at Boston, Massachusetts, and training at Yorktown, Virginia, the wooden hulled coastal minesweeper Roller got underway for duty in the 4th Naval District, headquartered at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 18 September 1941.
Equipped with magnetic and "O" type sweep gear, she operated off the busy Delaware and New Jersey coasts during all but the final weeks of World War II.
Transferred in the spring of 1945, she departed Cape May, New Jersey, 25 April and steamed to Solomons Island, Maryland, where she conducted operations for the Naval Mine Warfare Test Station until placed out of service 18 April 1946.
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