 After shakedown off San Diego, California and a training cruise in Hawaiian waters, the new destroyer departed the west coast 16 January 1948 for a round-the-world training and good will voyage.In company with the aircraft carrier and three other destroyers, "Lloyd Thomas" visited Sydney, Australia, Hong Kong, and Tsingtao, China.After Tsingtao, "Lloyd Thomas", , and "Valley Forge" proceeded westward, touching Singapore, Ceylon, and Saudi Arabia, transited the Suez Canal and the Straits of Gibraltar, then steamed north for calls at Bergen, Norway, and Southampton, England.