of her escorts, the Republic of Korea Navy frigate ROKS Apnok on 21 May 1952, striking Apnok amidships; Apnok suffered 25 dead and 21 injured and was damaged beyond economical repair. On 12 January 1953, Mount Baker sortied from San Francisco with a cruiser‑destroyer force for the largest, to that time, postwar training operation in the Pacific. Early in February she sailed for Sasebo, Japan, to resume combat duty. From March until the Armistice in July, Mount Baker gave efficient and essential service in the cause of a free Korea. Returning to San Diego early in the fall, she provided the fleet primarily with training ammunition, was overhauled, and 10 March 1954 sailed to support the 7th Fleet in operations off Japan and the Philippines. 1955-1969 (Far East, Vietnam) In 1955, and almost every year thereafter, Mount Baker made similar deployments to the Far East, usually of 8 months duration. Stateside periods between were given to necessary overhaul and training, as well as providing training in underway replenishment to other ships of the fleet. When she left San Diego 28 October 1964, she was bound for duty replenishing 7th Fleet ships operating off the coast of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. She also brought ammunition to ships of the Taiwan patrol and bases in Japan and the Philippines during this and her other recent deployments. Returning to Port Chicago, Calif., in the spring of 1965, Mount Baker prepared for a year‑long deployment for which she sailed 5 January 1966. During much of this tour in the Far East, Mount Baker was on station with carriers off Vietnam, providing ammunition for aircraft flying strikes on North Vietnam and against enemy concentrations in South Vietnam. After overhaul at Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard, the Mount Baker sailed again to the Far East on 28 September 1967 to aid the United States 7th Fleet, returning to Port Chicago in late April 1968. In June 1968 she underwent numerous minor fixes such as a boiler re-tubing and the pit sword at Port Chicago. In October 1968, the 'Mount Baker left for its final cruise to the Far East, carrying out its mission of underway (at-sea) transfers of ammunition to the 7th Fleet aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and the one battleship New Jersey off the coast of Vietnam. This final mission was completed in July 1969, after which it returned to Port Chicago, and several months