 The ship concluded her last operations with the Coast and Geodetic Survey in the summer of 1941 having worked out of Dutch Harbor, Cold Bay, Women's Bay, and Kodiak since the previous spring—and departed Ketchikan on 22 July 1941, bound for Seattle and turnover to the Navy.Arriving at Seattle on 25 July, "Discoverer"—the retention of her name by the Navy approved on 5 August 1941.On the afternoon of 26 August Lt. Comdr.