 She relieved "Intrepid" at Gibraltar 10 days later and cruised the length of the Mediterranean during the following eight months.On 2 August 1956, "Ticonderoga" returned to Norfolk and entered the shipyard to receive an angled flight deck and an enclosed hurricane bow as part of the SCB-125 program.Those modifications were completed by early 1957, and in April she got underway for her new home port – Alameda, California.