USS Pinnacle (MSO-462) - Stateside Overhaul

Stateside Overhaul

Overhaul, local operations and Caribbean amphibious exercises took up 1959 and in January 1960, Pinnacle deployed to the Mediterranean for another tour with the U.S. 6th Fleet. Returning in June, she resumed a series of local operations Mine Warfare school ship duties and amphibious exercise in the Caribbean. In late January 1962 she steamed to Cape Canaveral, Florida, to act as a back-up ship during the Mercury 6 space shot. In April she reported for duty with the Mine Defense Laboratory, Panama City, Florida, and after upkeep at the end of the summer sailed north to participate in joint U.S.-Canadian exercises in the North Atlantic Ocean.