DANFS History:
Following shakedown in the Bermuda area and post-shakedown availability in the Boston Navy Yard, Wiseman departed Boston on 24 May 1944 on the first of three round-trip convoy escort
missions that she conducted through the autumn of 1944. Subsequently converted to a floating power station - the necessity for ship-to-shore electrical facilities having been proved
during earlier phases of the Pacific war - at the Charleston (S.C.) Navy Yard, Wiseman sailed for the Pacific on 11 January 1945.
Making port at Pearl Harbor on 3 February, the destroyer escort operated for a month in the Hawaiian Islands before setting sail for the Philippines on
3 March. Arriving at Manila on the 23rd, Wiseman commenced furnishing power to that nearly demolished city on 13 April and, over the next five and one-half months, provided
some 5,806,000 killowatt-hours of electricity.
