 "Windlass" operated locally out of Norfolk into 1955.The following summer, she again participated in Project "Caesar" evolutions—in mid-June off Shelburne; in late July off Cape May, New Jersey; and in September off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.After underway training out of Newport and rest and recreation at New York, New York, "Windlass" attempted the salvage of the sunken yacht "Turbatross" off Tangier Island in Chesapeake Bay.