Service History
Homeported at San Pedro, Volador operated locally under the aegis of the 11th Naval District into 1943. In July of that year, she was temporarily transferred to the Coast Guard for operational training duties for Coast Guard district personnel. On 17 August 1943, Volador was delivered to the War Shipping Administration and on 3 September 1943 struck from the Navy List.
The War Shipping Administration transferred the schooner to the War Department for operation by the U.S. Army as a communications ship in the Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA). Volador was a part of the "CP fleet," a flotilla of small vessels equipped with radio and Signal Corps personnel first acting as relays from forward areas that expanded into full forward command post communications facilities. Volador participated in the Papua-New Guinea campaign along with the Australian acquired vessels Harold and Argosy Lemal and Geoanna, another U.S. vessel sent to SWPA and used as a communications ship.
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