 She was recommissioned at Pearl Harbor on 2 June 1951, Captain O. J. Stien, USNR, in command.Later that month, she was towed, in sections, to Guam in the Mariana Islands where the Navy was improving another repair facility in fairly close proximity to the combat zone in the year-old Korean War.Reporting for duty on 26 June 1951, she was not completely assembled and ready for duty until the beginning of March 1952.