"Mazama" recommissioned 24 April 1952 and was assigned to Service Force, Atlantic Fleet. For the next five years she operated off the east coast with annual deployments with the 6th Fleet. During her 1956 Mediterranean deployment (1 May to 11 October) she was part of the logistics force in the eastern part of that sea as the crisis over Egyptian nationalization of the Suez Canal heightened. The crisis erupted in late October into armed conflict between Israel, the United Kingdom, France, and Egypt. Following her return to the east coast, "Mazama" decommissioned 10 June 1957 at Orange, Texas, where she remained as a unit of the 16th Fleet until 1961.