Operations in Korea and Japan
Refresher training occupied her during the first six weeks of 1963. While conducting an exercise on 16 February, Albatross suffered damage to her port reduction gear which idled the ship under repairs until 5 March. Albatross then joined an exercise with naval forces of the Republic of Korea at Chumunjin, Korea. She paid a brief visit to Kure, Japan, on 19 March, and took part in a mine exercise from 20 to 25 March off Iwakuni, Japan. The minesweeper next stopped at Beppu, Japan, and then returned to Sasebo on 30 March.
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