 Recommissioned on 26 February 1952 with Captain Melvyn H. McCoy in command, she remained on the East Coast servicing Destroyer Force ships.Operating initially at Newport, Rhode Island and after April, 1955 at Fall River, Massachusetts, "Markab" also participated in the semiannual fleet exercises.On 9 February she departed on a voyage to Charleston where she decommissioned on 31 July.