 Towed to Mare Island Navy Yard in California, she was redesignated as Repair Ship AR-23 on 15 April 1960 and recommissioned on 1 July with Captain Edwin Monroe Westbrook, Jr. in command.Homeported at Alameda Naval Air Station, the repair ship sailed to Pearl Harbor late in October, returning 22 December.Between 5 July 1962 and 14 September 1966 she projected her services even more widely, steaming three times on seven month WestPac deployments with Capt.