West Coast Operations
After shakedown and individual ship training out of Long Beach, California, during 1954, the ship entered Long Beach shipyard for extensive modifications October 1954 to February 1953. She was reclassified MSO-448 7 February 1955. She continued to operate out of Long Beach, taking part in a major U.S. Pacific Fleet training exercise in November 1955. For the next year she trained in California waters.
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