 "Beverly W. Reid" arrived at Little Creek on 23 March 1968 and remained there for almost a month, before embarking a six-day trip to Onslow Bay to do sounding surveys on 21 April 1968.She returned to Little Creek on 27 March 1968 and stayed close to home during May 1968, mixing upkeep with hydrographic surveys of the waters off Camp Pendleton in Virginia Beach and work with fleet ocean tug to help battleship in gunnery calibration exercises off the Virginia Capes.Underway on 1 June 1968, "Beverly W. Reid" sailed for Port Canaveral, Florida, arriving there on 3 June 1968.