USS Sturtevant (DE-239) - Reactivated in 1951

Reactivated in 1951

After six years of inactivity in Florida, Sturtevant was recommissioned on 3 August 1951, LCDR Richard B. Redmayne in command (Redmayne was a survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis CA-35 in 1945 http://www.ussindianapolis.org/crew.htm). For the next four years, she operated along the Atlantic coast of the United States and in the Caribbean Sea. Her operations carried her as far north as the coast of Labrador and as far south as Cuba. Much of the time she spent in the Caribbean was devoted to work in conjunction with the Fleet Sonar School at Key West, Florida, and with the hunter-killer Forces of the Atlantic Fleet.

After visiting ports in northern Europe during a midshipman cruise conducted in the summer of 1955, she resumed her training duties with the Fleet Sonar School and normal operations for another year. She joined another midshipman cruise, in July and August 1956; this time to Panama and the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.