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- Duty with the 6th Fleet-1958
- Earned the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal as a result of service off the coast of Lebanon. Home port - Charleston, South Carolina
- Participated in the Cuban blockade to keep Russian ships from delivering missiles to Cuba.
- Assigned to the Gordon Cooper's Project Mercury space shot.-1963
- Conducted tests - Naval Oceanographic Office - 1970
- She provided services for the following:-1971-1972
Naval Mine Defense LaboratoryNaval Coastal Systems Laboratory(Panama City, Florida)Naval Ordnance Laboratory Test Facility(Fort Lauderdale, Florida)Mine Warfare School(Charleston, South Carolina)
During her services in home waters, she concentrated on training, independent ship exercises and goodwill port visits. This included regular overhauls, and repair periods. Homeport change from Charleston to Newport, Rhode Island. Reassignment to Naval Reserve training duty.-1973
She changed her homeport to Portsmouth, New Hampshire where she operated for more than four years.-1977
She was homeported at the Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Virginia.-1981
She deployed to the Persian Gulf.-1991
The Multinational Coalition Mine Countermeasure Force found approximately 1300 Iraqi-laid mines in the Gulf. ** This great wooden ship was decommissioned on 12 December 1991 **She was disposed of by the Navy15 April 1994
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