In early 1956 she returned to Indo-China (which had been partitioned after the cease fire) equipped with Vought F4U Corsairs and Grumman TBF Avengers.

She was involved in the Suez Crisis air and landing operations along with Arromanches and British carriers beginning in October 1956.

In March 1960, La Fayette participated in the rescue operations in the Moroccan city of Agadir, damaged by an earthquake.

After more than a decade of French Navy service, she was returned to the United States in March 1963 and was sold for scrap a year later.

[1] In French service, La Fayette sailed nearly 350,000 nautical miles (650,000 km), her planes having carried out 19,805 landings.