 Placed in reserve on 1 February 1959, "Kankakee" was reinstated on 1 September 1961 and recommissioned on 29 November at New Orleans, Captain M. O. Slater in command.Assigned to ServRon 4, she departed New Orleans on 9 December, arriving Newport, Rhode Island, on 15 December.After a Caribbean cruise from 8 January to 8 March 1962, she operated along the Atlantic coast.