sentences:  After several months of limited operations out of San Diego, the destroyer received an overhaul at Terminal Island between 29 August and 23 November before returning to San Diego in preparation for an overseas deployment.On 6 January 1947, "Benner" departed San Diego in company with and arrived at Hong Kong, via Pearl Harbor and Eniwetok, on the 30th.Tensions in the region were high, and "Benner" spent eight months cruising the East China Sea in support of the ultimately futile American efforts to resolve the Chinese civil war.