 For the next 16 months, the "Ruddy" engaged in type training and tactics along the California coast.On 20 January 1955, accompanied by , MSF-131, "Ruddy" departed Pipeline Pier in Long Beach Harbor, and headed west for another tour in the Far East, stopping at Pearl Harbor in the Territory of Hawaii, and at Midway Islands for fuel and supplies.Eighteen days later, while still in transit, she was redesignated MSF-380.