while transiting the Lombok Strait southbound to the Indian Ocean, Bugara honored her sister ship , lost on 6 August 1945 during World War II, with a wreath-laying ceremony. Bugara then made her first port visit to Fremantle, Australia, since August 1945, returning as the U.S. Pacific Fleet Submarine Force representative for the annual commemoration of Australia’s celebration of the anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea, which had occurred during World War II from 4 to 8 May 1942. During her return voyage to the United States, Bugara crosseed the junction of the equator and International Date Line on 17 May 1966. She traveled during her deployment. Bugara began an overhaul at San Francisco’s Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard in October 1966. After its completion on 25 April 1967, she conducted successful post-overhaul sea trials and shakedown from then until 20 May 1967. Immediately after shakedown, and until 15 June 1967, she visited the Dabob Bay Torpedo Testing Facility in Puget Sound for fire-control system checks and calibrations. From 15 June to 1 October 1967, she provided services to Eastern Pacific units assigned to Commander, United States First Fleet. During this training, she sank the decommissioned destroyer escort as a target with a Mark 14 Mod. 5 torpedo in a war shot test. She also received the Battle “E” award again during this period. She then immediately began preparations for her own deployment to the Western Pacific with the U.S. Seventh Fleet. From 17 October to 31 December 1967, Bugara was assigned to the Seventh Fleet. During her deployment, her eleventh to the Western Pacific, and before the end of 1967, she visited Pearl Harbor; Midway Atoll; Buckner Bay, Okinawa; Keelung, Taiwan; and Manila and Subic Bay in the Philippines. She also rendered services to the Japanese Self-Defense Force, the Republic of China Navy, and anti-submarine warfare aircraft of the U.S. Navy. The beginning of 1968 found Bugara in Subic Bay, halfway through her deployment. As her deployment continued into 1968, she visited Bangkok, Thailand; Keelung and Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Hong Kong; and Yokosuka, Japan. During January 1968, she hosted several newsmen while operating in the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam and was featured on American television in an episode of The Huntley–Brinkley Report on NBC. On 1 February 1968, her crew participated in a people-to-people program with the inhabitants of the island of Ko Samui, Thailand. During the