The combat stores ship spent the first nine months of her commissioned service engaged in a series of routine post-commissioning activities in California waters.

Shakedown training followed in April, and post-shakedown availability at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco occupied her time during the last half of May and the first three weeks of June.

While in Japan, she also visited Sasebo before getting underway on 16 September for Naval Station Subic Bay and thence to the Vietnam combat zone.

There, she cruised for 14 days engaged in underway replenishment operations with warships of the United States Seventh Fleet on station off the coast.

On 15 April 1971, she began her first regular overhaul at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, and it occupied her until 8 July when she put to sea for post-overhaul trials.

Again, she made a series of replenishment cruises in the Vietnam combat zone and punctuated them with visits to such ports as Hong Kong, Singapore, Sattahip district, Thailand, Kaohsiung, Taiwan and Subic Bay.

"End Sweep" came to a conclusion late in July, and White Plains began real peacetime duty at that point.

She also made the usual port calls throughout the Orient and participated in training exercises, notably with units of the Republic of Korea Navy in November 1974 and January 1975.

On 1 August 1975, she changed home ports from Sasebo to Yokosuka and, on 5 September, began regular overhaul at her new base of operations.

During the second week of July, she interrupted her normal routine again, this time to rush to the Indian Ocean, via Subic Bay, to resupply the carrier contingency force sent to patrol the eastern coast of Africa during the flare-up between Kenya and Uganda.

She remained in the Indian Ocean until 5 August whereupon she headed back to Yokosuka to resume her normal support duties with the 7th Fleet.

During the next five weeks, she sailed to Australia, participated in the bilateral amphibious and antisubmarine exercise Operation "Kangaroo II", visited the Australian port of Townsville, and then returned to Yokosuka.

In late October and early November 1977, the ship voyaged to the Indian Ocean again to replenish American warships engaged in Operation "Midlink".

[2] White Plains was towed Subic Bay by USNS Narragansett for preliminary repairs and returned to Guam approximately three months later.

After a relative calm and then the second pass of the eyewall, White Plains was torn from her moorings by the 150 mph winds and ultimately ran aground on the coral beach near Polaris Point.

The plan took into account the surface area of exposed portions of the ship and pounds per square inch of expected force generated by typhoon winds along with the strength of pier cleats, bollards and deadmen.

The generator situation was corrected after several hours and troubleshooting, and ultimately solved by a simple observation made by the Electrical Officer, LTJG Lee, that a control governor mechanical linkage was undone.

Essential power for emergency services were restored to the ship, enabling the crew to handle any flooding or fire that would occur.

[3] White Plains earned the following awards,[4][5] including: This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.