Post-War Reactivation
On 6 June 1951, Snowden was again placed in active service. She held refresher training at Guantanamo Bay in July and August and then conducted exercises out of Newport, Rhode Island, from September 1951 to March 1952. After further refresher training at Guantanamo Bay in June and July, she sailed to the North Atlantic and participated in her first North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) fleet exercise. After calling at ports in Norway and Scotland, she returned to the Caribbean and spent the remainder of the year there.
From 1953 to 1957, Snowden operated with the Atlantic Fleet along the east coast, ranging from Labrador to the Caribbean. She participated in her second NATO exercise from 3 September to 21 October 1957 with port calls in France. The escort resumed her normal east coast operations until February 1960 when she became a Group I, Naval Reserve Training Ship.
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