East Coast Operations
During the remainder of 1955, USS Vandivier completed outfitting at Boston, Massachusetts, moved to Newport, Rhode Island, and prepared for her shakedown cruise. On 14 January 1956, she cleared Newport to conduct her shakedown training in the West Indies. Over the next two months, she operated in the vicinity of Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, and near Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. She also made port visits to Ponce and San Juan in Puerto Rico as well as to Guantánamo Bay and Havana in Cuba.
On 15 March, Vandivier departed Havana to return to New England. She arrived at Boston on the 20th and underwent post-shakedown availability there until the second week in April, when she returned to Newport to begin duty as a radar picket ship with the Atlantic Fleet.
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