USS Aide De Camp (IX-224)—a wooden-hulled motor yacht designed by B. T. Dobson—was built in 1922 at Neponset, Massachusetts., by the George Lawley & Sons Corporation for the noted yarn manufacturer, Samuel Agar Salvage, whom she served as Colleen. After the surrender of Germany, the vessel was transferred to the Navy on 31 May 1945 and was placed in service on 18 June 1945, Lt. David W. Warren, Jr., in charge.