East Coast Operations
Wheatear departed Cleveland, Ohio on 8 October and arrived in Boston on the 20th. There, she completed the fitting-out process and its attendant exercises. On 23 November, she got underway and headed south, arriving at Little Creek, Virginia, on the 27th. She began shakedown training which lasted until 14 January 1946 when she became an active unit of Mine Division (MinDiv) 10. Following post-shakedown availability, Wheatear began training operations in the Chesapeake Bay from her base in Norfolk, Virginia. That employment continued until 24 June when she received orders to proceed to Charleston, South Carolina, where she went into an inactive status due to a severe shortage of crew members. She continued in that status until 31 October.
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