World War II North Atlantic Operations
Snowden sailed for New Orleans, Louisiana, on 3 September en route to Bermuda for her shakedown cruise which lasted until 14 October. She was then ordered to Charleston, South Carolina. Late in the month, she escorted USS Almaack (AK-27) to Panama, and, in November, USS Sloat (DE-245) to New York. The ship was assigned to convoy UGS-24 there, on 11 November, and escorted it to Norfolk, Virginia, and Casablanca, arriving on 1 December. She picked up another convoy there and returned to New York on 24 December 1943.
Snowden got underway for a short training cruise to Norfolk on 5 January 1944 and then escorted USS Arkansas (BB-33) to New York. In January, she escorted convoy UGS-31 to Gibraltar, via Norfolk, and in February returned to New York with convoy UGS-30 which arrived on 8 March. The escort then moved to Norfolk and joined Task Group (TG) 21.15, a hunter-killer group, which sailed on 24 March.
That evening, a sound contact was made by Snowden, but she was ordered out of the area so that aircraft from USS Croatan (CVE-25) could drop sonar buoys, which produced negative results.
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