The ship was placed in service with the Military Sea Transportation Service in 1951 as USNS T-LST-325, and took part in "Operation SUNAC" (Support of North Atlantic Construction), venturing into the Labrador Sea, Davis Strait, and Baffin Bay to assist in the building of radar outposts along the eastern shore of Canada and western Greenland.
Black Sea | Mediterranean Sea | Baltic Sea | North Sea | Red Sea | Caspian Sea | Caribbean Sea | Adriatic Sea | Newfoundland and Labrador | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador | Labrador | Aegean Sea | South China Sea | Sea of Japan | Irish Sea | Westland Sea King | Dead Sea | Arabian Sea | Tyrrhenian Sea | Southend-on-Sea | East China Sea | Ionian Sea | Bering Sea | White Sea | Kara Sea | First Sea Lord | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | Dead Sea Scrolls | British Sea Power | Tasman Sea |
With an area of just 100 km² (600 km² according to other sources), it was the smallest municipality of Greenland, bordering on the former Narsaq municipality in the north, east, and south, and on the west by the Labrador Sea.
This marine species occurs in circum-arctic waters; from Labrador, Canada and Greenland to Cape Cod, USA; from the Bering Strait to Southern Alaska