 She played a vital part in the development of new and better Navy sonar equipment.The ship was used by the Naval Research Laboratory in tests of a subset of the transducer element modules for the active acoustic source for Project Artemis when the initial elements failed due to inter element coupling, nonuniform displacement across the face of array and element destruction.Despite problems with the well design, wave action in the well and air compression under the doors causing them to lift off their tracks, the ship successfully towed equipment to depths of until engine failure too expensive to repair after a mistake during shipyard repairs led to the ship's retirement in 1959.