sentences:  Since that date and through 1962 she has operated from Yokosuka and occasionally from Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, supporting the ever more important operations of U.S. 7th Fleet, as it carries out its assignment to keep the Taiwan Patrol Force at sea, and in September 1954 took part in the Vietnamese evacuation, Operation Passage to Freedom, off Indo-China.An overhaul at San Francisco early in 1955 fitted her to carry both technical and general stores.While bound for Subic Bay on 19 October 1956, "Castor" fought her way unscathed through a furious typhoon, and next day received a distress message from the Philippine merchantman SS "Lepus".