sentences:  Following the North Korean invasion of South Korea on the 25th, "Benner" put to sea in case hostilities broke out in Europe.She operated in the eastern Mediterranean for the next three months — visiting such ports as Istanbul, Turkey; Beirut, Lebanon; and Argostoli, Greece — before coming home to Newport on 10 October.Over the next five years, the destroyer made three more of these Mediterranean cruises (20 March to 4 October 1951, 2 October 1952 to 4 February 1953, and 4 May to 28 September 1954).