She spent the next 21 months tending nets and conducting patrols at San Pedro.

At that time, Buckthorn began tending nets at Manchester, Washington.

She next tended nets at Adak again between 29 January and 16 April.

She tended nets there until the fall of 1942.

She then began her assignment of tending nets in waters off Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.

She tended nets at this port until 16 October when she departed for the U.S. West Coast.

Between 19 July 1945 and 5 November, Chinaberry tended nets at Eniwetok.

Snowbell tended nets at Kerama Retto until 15 May and then moved to Buckner Bay.

She tended antisubmarine nets and performed minesweeping tasks until May 1942.

For the remainder of World War II she tended nets there and at ports on Hispaniola.