 Highlights of this phase of her service include protection of the Quemoy Islands from Communist aggression in September 1954, relief of Ceylonese flood victims in January 1958, and important fleet and individual exercises during her periods at sea.In the early 1960s "Henderson" was thoroughly modernized in the Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) program.She received the FRAM I refit at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, completed in April 1962.