Kossol Roads
"Device" was launched 21 May 1944 by Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Tampa, Florida; sponsored by Miss P. K. Kennedy; and commissioned 7 July 1944, Lieutenant R. Remage, Jr., USNR, in command. "Device" arrived at Pearl Harbor 15 November 1944 after training in the Panama Canal Zone area. Nine days later she got underway to escort a convoy to Eniwetok, then to Kossol Roads, Palau Islands, arriving 24 December. She acted as harbor entrance control vessel and patrolled in the Angaur-Peleliu screen until 9 January 1945 when she escorted convoys between Kossol Roads, Manus, Ulithi, Guam, and Saipan.