 In between her deployments with the 6th Fleet, the destroyer tender operated out of Boston, Newport, Norfolk, Bermuda, Mayport, Florida.Her tasks were performed mostly unheralded and far from the public eye but were necessary to maintain the ships of the Fleet in operational trim.In October 1969 she performed a noteworthy repair job when she replaced 1,162 tubes in the number one propulsion boiler of as that ship was preparing to deploy to the Mediterranean.