 Wandank interrupted this duty only long enough to tow landing craft utility USS "LCU-1483" to Ponape Island and USS "LCU-1497" to Majuro, from 25 November 1969 to 4 December 1969.During her final full year of naval service, 1970, "Wandank" conducted local operations out of her home port of Apra Harbor, Guam.She got underway from Guam on 20 January 1971 for Hong Kong and then escorted three "Asheville"-class patrol gunboats to Subic Bay, the Philippines and Cam Ranh Bay.