 One ship rotated duty as the station ship in Hong Kong.During her Vietnam War tour, "Barataria" was underway 83 percent of the time and cruised over without a major mechanical or electrical failure.Keeping a close watch on all moving craft in her surveillance area, "Barataria" detected, inspected, or boarded nearly 1,000 steel-hulled vessels traversing her area, any one of which could have been a trawler trying to sneak supplies to the enemy.