 Adams in command, and reported to the US Atlantic Fleet.Between 27 July 1943 and 19 June 1944, "Chepachet" supported military and naval operations in North Africa and the Mediterranean by crossing the Atlantic in convoys, carrying oil from West Indian and Gulf ports to Casablanca and Oran.In July, "Chepachet" took departure for Aruba, NWI, a Dutch island off the coast of Venezuela, and a transshipment and refining center for Venezuelan crude oil, in company with the oiler , and the destroyer escorts and .