Late in August, the ship returned to Boston for post-shakedown availability.

At the completion of a post-shakedown availability, she departed the west coast on 17 June, bound for Hawaii.

She returned to Norfolk on 17 June and began post-shakedown availability.

She left Bermuda on the 5th, arrived in Boston on the 8th and began post-shakedown availability.

She arrived back in Pearl Harbor on 15 November and began post-shakedown availability.

On 2 March, she put in at Terminal Island for a three-week post-shakedown availability.

She returned to New York on 8 April and commenced post-shakedown availability.

Following those operations, she conducted post-shakedown availability.

Most of March was spent in a post-shakedown availability and in training.

She returned to Boston from 5 December 1957 to 3 February 1958 for post-shakedown availability.