 "Barataria" was stationed at Portland, Maine, on 1 August 1949, and it would remain her home port until January 1968.Her primary duty was to serve on ocean stations to gather meteorological data.While on duty in one of these stations, she was required to patrol a 210-square-mile (544-square-kilometer) area for three weeks at a time, leaving the area only when physically relieved by another Coast Guard cutter or in the case of a dire emergency.