 Arriving Norfolk, Virginia 5 January 1946, from 28 April to 5 September she served as a target ship for torpedo bombing practice off the Florida coast until ordered to Orange, Texas for inactivation.She arrived there on 7 November, and was decommissioned on 30 April 1947.Recommissioned 15 February 1950, "Pursuit" left Texas and proceeded off Labrador and Greenland as part of Hydrographic Survey Group 2.