European Deployments
After shakedown training out of Key West, Florida, during which time the ocean minesweepers' designation was changed to MSO-431 on 7 February 1955, Dominant reported to her home port, Charleston, South Carolina, 10 November 1955 for duty with Mine Force, Atlantic. Assigned to Mine Division 43, the minesweeper spent the next four years conducting deployments to Europe for operations and exercises with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) navies, providing services for the Mine Defense Laboratory in Panama City, Florida, and supporting amphibious and other fleet exercises off the east coast and in the West Indies.
Dominant first deployed to Europe soon after arriving at Charleston (4 January - 11 June 1956) and followed that a Mediterranean deployment the next year (1 May - 2 October 1957), a northern European deployment that included a cruise to Danish and German ports in the Baltic Sea (12 May - 30 September 1958), another Mediterranean deployment (27 April - 27 August 1959) before returning to her new home port at Little Creek, Virginia.
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