sentences:  She visited the Chinese ports of Shanghai, Tsingtao, and Chinwangtao, as well as the Korean port of Pusan, before sailing for San Diego, where she arrived on 8 October.Following 11 months of local operations in California waters, the destroyer departed San Diego for China on 1 October 1948 — mainly to escort the Pacific Mobile Striking Force to Tsingtao and to help monitor the withdrawal of Soviet forces from North Korea — before returning home on 23 December.She remained in California waters, conducting routine operations, into the spring of 1949.