 Ordered into drydock for conversion to an internal combustion engine repair ship, she was redesignated ARG-19 on 25 June 1945.Following two months of repair and conversion, she departed San Diego on 28 August for duty with the service force in occupied Japan.The ship remained in Japanese waters — tending the multitude of small craft in use by the Navy — until March, 1946, when she crossed the China Sea and steamed up the Yangtze River in China and then on to the Huangpu River where she remained until May,1946.