Biennially deployed to the Mediterranean for duty with the U.S. 6th Fleet from that time until 1967 , she was employed on projects for the Naval Mine Warfare School at Charleston , the Mine Defense Laboratory at Panama City , Florida , and the Naval Ordnance Test Facility at Fort Lauderdale , Florida , during her U.S. 2d Fleet duty . Occasionally assigned to planeguard duty for helicopters from amphibious assault ships , target towing , and to patrol duties , she was also a unit of the Project Mercury recovery force in January 1962 and participated in the recovery effort of the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash
1966 Palomares B-52 crash
1966 Palomares B-52 crash
USS Sagacity (MSO-469)