On 5 September 1945, all ship transfers to the Soviet Union were ordered stopped, although training for ships already transferred was allowed to continue. Accordingly, "EK-26" remained at Cold Bay along with "EK-28" (ex-"Newport"), "EK-29" (ex-"Bath"), and "EK-30" (ex-"Evanvsille") for additional shakedown and training until 17 September 1945, when all four ships departed in company bound for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Soviet Union, the last four of the 149 Project Hula ships to do so. Arriving too late to see World War II combat with the Soviet Navy, "EK-26" served as a patrol vessel in the Soviet Far East.