 Reclassified AGS-18 on 18 August 1951, she discontinued her North Atlantic-Caribbean schedule in the fall of 1954.On 6 October she got underway from Norfolk; and, from 1 November 1954 to 2 February 1955, she conducted surveys from İskenderun, Turkey.Returned to Norfolk,Va.They went west through the Panama Canal to San Diego, then to Seattle.