Editing USS Algol (AKA-54) (section)

===Atlantic Fleet, 1961–1970===
''Algol'' was recommissioned on 17 November 1961 at the [[Northwest Marine Iron Works]] at [[Portland, Oregon]]. After shakedown training out of San Diego, the attack cargo ship departed that port on 12 January 1962 on her way to duty with the [[United States Fleet Forces Command|Atlantic Fleet]]. She was assigned to Amphibious Group (PhibGru) 2, Amphibious Squadron (PhibRon) 4, Atlantic Fleet, and spent most of 1962 operating in the [[Caribbean|West Indies]]. Notable among her assignments in the fall of 1962 was as a support unit for the "quarantine" of Cuba imposed by President [[John F. Kennedy]] during the 1962 [[Cuban Missile Crisis]].{{sfn|DANFS|2015}}

''Algol'' spent the remaining seven years of her Navy career operating primarily along the [[east coast of the United States]] and in the West Indies. That duty consisted almost solely of amphibious warfare training in conjunction with Marines. The only break in that schedule of operations came at the end of the summer of 1964. At that time, the attack cargo ship deployed to the Mediterranean Sea to participate in the massive amphibious exercise "[[Operation Steel Pike]] I." By early 1965, she returned to more familiar waters and spent the remaining years of her career operating along the eastern seaboard and in the West Indies. During that period, on 1 January 1969, the attack cargo ship was redesignated an amphibious cargo ship and was assigned the hull designation '''LKA-54'''.{{sfn|DANFS|2015}}