A week later, she got underway for tactical exercises in company with and ; but they soon commenced looking for the overdue San Diego-based tuna boat SS "San Juaquin", last reported in their vicinity. The Coast Guard cutter "Takoe" joined the search on 21 August, and the cutter "Aurora" began the next day. On the 23d, "Aylwin" and the other ships, sailing in a scouting line, searched for the overdue full-rigged ship "Pacific Queen". Although they did not find either vessel, it seems that neither was lost, since both appeared on merchant vessel registers for some years thereafter. In fact, the latter—bearing her original name, "Balclutha"—serves as a floating museum berthed in San Francisco, California.