USS Kenneth Whiting (AV-14) - Cold War Service

Cold War Service

Kenneth Whiting recommissioned at San Diego on 24 October 1951, and sailed for Far Eastern duty 13 March 1952. She arrived Yokosuka, Japan, on 29 March to assist U.S. naval forces in resisting communist aggression in Korea. The seaplane tender operated out of Iwakuni until 16 October when she sailed for the United States.

Following overhaul at Bremerton, Washington, and coastal operations out of San Diego, Kenneth Whiting sailed on 2 March 1953 for another WestPac deployment, supporting seaplane activities out of Japan in the final months of the Korean War.

After the war, Kenneth Whiting made annual deployments to the Far East in support of the 7th Fleet activities. During the summer of 1955, she operated in the Formosa-Pescadores area in the wake of repeated Communist harassment on Chinese Nationalist-held islands. On 29 March 1957 she arrived at her new home port Crescent Harbor, Washington, but sailed for another Far Eastern tour on 12 August. She continued operations with the 7th Fleet until 31 January 1958 when she cleared Subic Bay, Philippines, and returned to Crescent Harbor, 10 March. Kenneth Whiting decommissioned at Puget Sound 30 September, and was struck from the Navy List on 1 July 1961, and sold on 21 February 1962 to Union Minerals & Alloy Corp.

Kenneth Whiting received two battle stars for World War II.