Conversion To Radar Picket Ship
She was decommissioned 1 May 1946 and her U.S. Coast Guard crew was removed. She was reclassified DER-251 on 7 December 1955, Camp was recommissioned 31 July 1956 for duty as radar picket ship in the early warning system. At this time, her two 5 inch 38 guns were replaced with two 3 inch 50's. She reported to Newport, Rhode Island as part of ComCorTron 16, 19 February 1957 and operated from that port to Argentia, Newfoundland, and into the North Atlantic through 1962. In 1963 she served off of Cuba as a Radar Picket Ship tracking Russian Convoys and rescuing Cuban refugees that had fled the island. From 1962 through 1964 the Camp operated out of Grenock, Scotland and during picket duty in the Irish sea she broke off a large section of external bilge keel Emergency repairs were made at sea to stop the fuel oil leak.
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