 In mid-July 1956, the ship again participated in Project "Caesar"; she pulled a target sled off a beach in Chesapeake Bay in November, and finished the year by pulling off the beach east of Little Creek.In the spring of 1957, "Windlass" operated for three weeks at Chincoteague, Virginia, in a Jupiter missile nose cone recovery.That summer, the ship recovered most of the wreckage from two AJ Savage bombers that had collided late in June off Ocean View, Virginia.