 "William C. Lawe" conducted cold weather operations in the Atlantic during the early part of 1952.The exercises were interrupted by a visit to Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 6 February.In the spring, the destroyer spent several weeks in antisubmarine operations in the Caribbean; then, on 3 June, the ship departed Newport and, together with , "Lawe" escorted around Cape Horn to the Pacific and up the West Coast of South America.