Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
Scheduled for only four months deployment in the western Pacific in 1958, mid-May through mid-September, "Manatee" remained an extra month to service the ships called to the area during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis. The following year, after her four months WestPac duty, "Manatee" was chosen, because of consistently efficient service, to take part in a joint Canadian-American replenishment demonstration held 8 October 1959 for the 14th Annual Conference of the National Defense Transportation Association.