Return To East Coast Operations
On 1 November, she returned to sea for a training cruise to the Panama Canal, during which voyage she also visited Orange, Texas, and Miami, Florida. For almost two years, the minesweeper operated out of Charleston as a unit of the Atlantic Fleet Mine Force.
In August 1948, she was reassigned to the Operational Development Force, based at Panama City, Florida. For almost five years, she supported the force's developmental work. Based at Panama City, she cruised the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and in the West Indies, operating frequently in the Guantanamo Bay operating area and infrequently making cruises along the Atlantic seaboard as far north as Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland.
On 15 April 1953, Wheatear rejoined the active Mine Force at Charleston as a unit of MinDiv 81; however, less than a month later on 1 May, she transferred to MinDiv 85. For the remainder of her brief career, the warship operated along the Atlantic coast and in the West Indies carrying out training missions with the Atlantic Fleet. The only exception to that routine came on 19 September 1953 when she departed Charleston on her only deployment.
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