Peacock was a coastal minesweeper capable of sweeping both moored and bottom sea mines of either contact or influence variety.

The coastal minesweeper arrived in Charleston on 22 October 1945.

The ship was converted into a coastal minesweeper and placed in service in 1941.

Some form of coastal minesweeper perhaps; now converted to Fleet Auxiliary work.

Following an appropriate training period she departed 7 July in company with other coastal minesweepers for Okinawa.

For the next 10 years the small coastal minesweeper operated along the East Coast in a variety of capacities.

Blue Jay, her three near-sisters, and two coastal minesweepers, swept the mouth of the Delaware River into the autumn of 1943.

Fifteen days later, she was assigned the name Sparrow, and designated a coastal minesweeper, AMC-31.

After shakedown along the coast of California, the new coastal minesweeper was assigned to the Western Sea Frontier force.

Upon commissioning 13 December 1944, she commenced her conversion from a coastal minesweeper to a locator of underwater ordnance.