Complex sentence: Following shakedown off Bermuda, "Woonsocket" returned to Boston for conversion to a weather ship before proceeding to Newfoundland, arriving at Argentia on 30 October, for meteorological charting duties off Newfoundland through the end of World War II and into the early months of 1946.
Split into simpler sentences: Following shakedown off Bermuda, "Woonsocket" returned to Boston for conversion to a weather ship before proceeding to Newfoundland, arriving at Argentia on 30 October. She performed meteorological charting duties off Newfoundland through the end of World War II and into the early months of 1946.