From 1953 through 1957 the high speed transport continued to operate with the Marines out of Little Creek.

The high speed transport continued on patrol, enduring nightly general quarters alarms for Japanese air raids.

On 16 July 1945 she arrived at Philadelphia for permanent repairs and conversion to a High speed transport.

The destroyer escort spent the next three months in drydock being refurbished and converted to a high speed transport.

On 22 October the high speed transport sailed for the Pacific.

Amagiri returned to Rabaul by March 1943, and resumed its missions as a high speed transport.

In 1942, Ward was sent to the West Coast for conversion to a high speed transport.

On 20 September 1942, she arrived at Seattle, Washington, to commence conversion to a high speed transport.

Marla heard the hum of a high- speed transport in the air.

She immediately began permanent repairs and conversion to a High speed transport, which she had been so designated the day before her arrival.