 Except for a quick run to Lisbon, "Lloyd Thomas" spent the rest of 1955 operating in home waters.The highpoint of 1956 was a summer midshipman cruise to Spain and the British Isles in company with the battleship .On 4 January 1957 the ship departed Newport with Destroyer Division 242 and submarine for South America to acquaint our good neighbors in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Chile with the newest techniques in antisubmarine warfare.