West Coast Operations
Albatross spent the next 14 months homeported at Long Beach, California, conducting shakedown and type training off the U.S. West Coast. On 2 July 1962, Albatross got underway with the other ships of Mine Division (MinDiv) 92, bound for the western Pacific Ocean. En route to Japan, the ship stopped briefly at Pearl Harbor, Midway Island, and Guam. She reached her new home port Sasebo, on 13 August and, after two months of upkeep, spent the rest of the year in training.
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