 Then, after a week's upkeep at Subic Bay, from 10 to 17 October, "Van Valkenburgh" headed for the United States.She completed a circumnavigation of the globe, sailing via Singapore, Federated Malay States; Colombo, Ceylon and Ras Tanura, Aden; the Suez Canal—transiting that waterway on 14 November; Naples and Genoa, Italy; Cannes, France; and Gibraltar; reaching Norfolk, Virginia, on 12 December.After remaining at Norfolk through the Christmas and New Year's holidays, "Van Valkenburgh" operated in the Vieques, Puerto Rico, area in March 1953.