Beaufort completed repairs on 11 March and resumed local operations.
Years later, she enumerated a set of proper procedures concerning the delivery of potential heirs, perhaps informed by the difficulty of her own experience.
She arrived back in Pearl Harbor on 15 November and began post-shakedown availability.
The ship was hit so hard, the mast began to shake violently, and the men on the bridge were on the deck waiting for it to crash.