 Her only breaks, from a steady demand of hard work from her crew, came on infrequent trips to Sydney, Australia.Following the push westward across the Pacific, "Prometheus" moved in the Spring of 1944 from San Francisco to Tulagi, and after a month’s stay there, where she catered primarily to escort carriers, she went to Florida Island and then in September to Manus.She received orders on 25 September to proceed to Kossol Passage, Palau Islands where she came under enemy fire for the first time from a Japanese midget sub.