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The Korean War prompted the re-commissioning of SMALLEY 3 July 1951. After refresher training at Guantanamo Bay, SMALLEY sailed to Newport, R.I., arriving at her new homeport 10 December 1951. SMALLEY spent all of 1952 on additional training coupled with maintenance and after a yard period in Boston in the spring 0f 1953, she sailed on 19 May for Korea. On 2 July, SMALLEY entered the Korean combat zone acting as plane guard for PRINCETON (CVA37). SMALLEY continued operating with TF77 as the carriers of the force carried out the famous "Cherokee" strikes until the signing of the armistice 27 July 1953. SMALLEY remained in the former combat zone until early November. She performed such diverse tasks as ferrying 110 Marines from Sasebo, Japan to Pusan, Korea, and assisting a South Korean fishing vessel in distress. In the latter case, she took on board the vessels' 29 men. SMALLEY departed the Far East in November 1953 and returned to Newport on 15 January 1954. Her route homeward included call at: Hong Kong, Singapore, Ceylon, Saudi Arabia, Aden, Port Said, Piraeus, Cannes,  and Gibraltar. SMALLEY remained home ported in Newport until July 1955 when she got underway for a Northern Europe and a Mediterranean cruise. She visited England, Denmark, Finland, Scotland, Spain, France, and Turkey and worked with units of both the Danish and the British Fleets. SMALLEY sailed for home on 15 November and arrived in Newport on the 28th. The year 1956 saw a cruise in the Caribbean waters followed by a yard period. Then in 1957, SMALLEY left Newport on what was to be her last operational assignment: a cruise with the Mid-east Force showing the flag in ports along the eastern coast of Africa and along the shores of the Persian Gulf. En-route to her new assignment, SMALLEY visited Sierra Leone, Capetown, and Mombasa (Kenya) before arriving at Karachi, Pakistan on 10 February. Following two return trips to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, she departed the area in April and, after calling once again at Mombasa, Capetown, Freetown, and Sierra Leone, SMALLEY returned home. On 12 June, SMALLEY went into dry-dock in Charleston, S.C.: and on 23 August 1957, SMALLEY departed her homeport for the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. She was decommissioned there and entered the United States Atlantic Reserve Fleet where she remained until she was struck from the Navy list on 1 April 1965 and sold to the Norfolk Shipbuilding and Dry-dock, Corp. SMALLEY was awarded three battle stars for her World War II operations and one star for Korea.

(DD-565: displacement 2,050'; length. 376'6", beam 39'8"; draft 17'9"; compliment. 319; armament. 5 - 5" guns, 10 - 40mm guns, 7 - 20mm guns, 10 - 21" torpedo tubes, 6 depth charge launchers; 2 depth charge racks; class Fletcher)

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