 In both cases the name was given by the ship's former owner, possibly for Queen Guinevere or another woman named for her.The auxiliary schooner was acquired from Edgar Palmer on 24 March 1942, and commissioned on 16 June 1942 at Brooklyn, New York, with Lieutenant Henry H. Anderson in command.After a brief shakedown, "Guinevere" performed harbor patrol at Boston, Massachusetts, escorted newly formed convoys out to sea, and periodically sailed to patrol off the coast of Greenland.