San Diego she proceeded to Jacksonville, Florida and subsequently Orange, Texas to prepare for decommissioning. 1946–1962 As Hamul entered the final stages of the decommissioning process, she was called back into active service as station ship at Plymouth, England. Reaching the British port on 17 April 1947, Hamul remained there for three years tending various American ships and making quarterly cruises to Atlantic and Mediterranean ports. Again ordered to decommission, Hamul departed Plymouth on 17 July 1950, but the outbreak of war in Korea again called for every available ship. Going west via Norfolk, Virginia, Hamul reached Sasebo, Japan on 23 October and began servicing the fleet operating off the Korean coast. From that period on Hamuls career fell into a pattern of six months duty in the East, which took her to the Philippines, Hong Kong, Formosa, and other Asian ports and islands, alternating with a similar period of time in her home port, Long Beach. During the active fighting in Korea and the Cold War afterwards, she played a vital role in maintaining America's mobile presence in the Pacific. Hamul (AD-20) decommissioned on 9 June 1962 at Long Beach. Returned to the Maritime Administration, she was placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay in Benicia, California. Hamul earned one battle star for World War II service and one battle star for Korean War service. References Type C3 ships Ships built in Kearny, New Jersey 1940 ships Hamul-class destroyer tenders World War II auxiliary ships of the United States Korean War auxiliary ships of the United States Tenders of the United States Navy Destroyer tenders of the United States