She sank during a typhoon in 2003, and was salvaged in 2009 in a joint operation between Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One Company 1-4 out of Naval Station Pearl Harbor and Philippine Navy divers. The salvage took just over 18 hours of bottom-time diving, and a total of six days to complete the project.
The vessel has a displacement of 170 tons fully loaded, a length overall of length is, and a top speed of . Its range is at 32 knots or at 20 knots. The craft is armed with a 1-twin 30mm Emerson Electric gun mount, a Bofors 40mm/60, and either 2 Oerlikon 20mm(twin mount) or 2 20mm General Electric Sea Vulcan Gatling Guns.