During the ensuing months, the cruiser made a number of voyages for the purpose of training naval reservists and NROTC midshipmen.

The cruiser alternated five assignments to the 6th Fleet with operations along the east coast of the United States and in the West Indies and made three cruises to South American ports.

During one of the South American voyages, Albany carried the official United States representative to the inauguration of the President of Brazil in January 1951.

The warship spent the next four years at Boston undergoing very extensive modifications as part of the conversion; stripped down to her hull to be fitted with a new superstructure.

For almost five years, she alternated deployments to European waters – both to the Mediterranean Sea and to the North Atlantic – with operations along the east coast and in the West Indies.

She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 June 1985, but she remained at her berth and held for possible donation as a museum ship in her name sake city for a further five years.