On 12 April she headed for the Korean combat zone to salvage SS "Park Benjamin", grounded with several compartments flooded near Pusan. In May she salvaged off Cheju-do. During the next three months, she cruised the Korean coast to clear anchorages, conduct surveys, and plant buoys and moorings. Then on 2 September she pointed her bow south for the Philippines and for the next month and a half conducted diving and demolition operations to rid Subic Bay of the hulk of the Japanese vessel "Oroyoku Maru".