 "Mattaponi" was reinstated on the Navy List on 1 September 1961, and recommissioned for a third time at Mobile, Alabama on 30 November 1962.Home-ported at San Francisco, she spent all of 1962 on the west coast.On 2 July 1963, she departed for the western Pacific where she serviced ships of the 7th Fleet in the Japanese, Philippine, and East and South China Seas.