[2] Evans arrived at San Diego, her home port, 4 August 1957, and began shakedown operations along the west coast.

She proceeded to visit Japan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines, and to train with ships of the navy of the Republic of Korea.

On 14 April 1960, Evans again climaxed a west coast training period by sailing for the western Pacific on a tour of duty which continued until 21 July 1960.

[2] Evans made a WestPac cruise from fall of 1962 to early 1963, stopping in Hawaii, Japan, a signed station ship in Hong Kong 1963, went to Vietnam just after the Tonkin Gulf incident.

[3] Evans served in the Vietnam war zone during parts of March, April and early July 1966.