 She patrolled in Southeast Alaska until early September 1924, then moved to Cook Inlet on the coast of Southcentral Alaska to patrol there.In 1925, "Blue Wing" was reassigned to summer patrol duties in the Kodiak Archipelago.Based at the BOF fish hatchery at Afognak Lake (also known as Litnik Lake) on Afognak Island, for the next ten years she served as tender to the hatchery and conducted fishery protection patrols around Kodiak Island and Afognak Island each summer.