She operated along the United States East Coast into 1941. She departed on 1 May 1941 for the Caribbean Sea, transiting the Panama Canal on 9 May, stopping in San Diego, California, through 21 May, and arriving at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 31 May. She operated from the Hawaiian Islands into the fall of 1941, as tensions rose in the Far East and the United States prepared for war in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
