 While on station, she acted as an aircraft check point at the point of no return, a relay point for messages from ships and aircraft, as a source of the latest weather information for passing aircraft, as a floating oceanographic laboratory, and as a search-and-rescue ship for downed aircraft and vessels in distress, and engaged in law enforcement operations.In September 1958, "Rockaway" salvaged a U.S. Navy seaplane from Bermuda.In December 1964, she rescued four people from the merchant ship "Smith Voyager".