East Coast Operations
The new, nonmagnetic, ocean minesweeper was assigned to Mine Force, Atlantic Fleet, as a member of Mine Division (MinDiv) 45, with Charleston, South Carolina, her home port. While taking part in numerous minesweeping exercises, she visited ports along the U.S. East Coast, on the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean into the following summer.
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