After a short return trip to Subic Bay, the gunboat sailed north to Taiwan for a visit and demonstration cruises.

At the end of that month, she resumed operations in the Hawaiian area with a demonstration cruise for the King of Nepal.

She cleared Newport on 6 June for a summer goodwill tour and sonar demonstration cruise to Northern Europe.

A second demonstration cruise is planned in Korean waters with the participation of other CCOP member-countries.

On 4 November 1955, Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, embarked on Albacore for a brief demonstration cruise.

In mid-July, the destroyer escort returned to New York to participate in the three-day demonstration cruise for civilian observers in the Navy's Industrial Incentive Program.

Nine people were killed when the Greeneville, a 6,080-ton nuclear submarine on a demonstration cruise for guests of the Navy, surfaced beneath the 499-ton trawler, breaking it in two and sinking it in deep waters off the coast of Oahu.

During April and May 1950 she conducted demonstration cruises for guests of the Secretary of the Navy, the Armed Forces Industrial College, Air War College, and the Armed Forces Staff College.

Commander Chun added that it was common for the Navy to seat visitors at various controls - like the periscope, the ballast control and the helm - in demonstration cruises like the one that ended with the sinking of the fishing vessel.

During a demonstration cruise on the Potomac for President John Tyler and other dignitaries, one of the two cannons on board blew up during a test firing: among the dead were the secretaries of state and the navy as well as the father of Tyler’s fiancée.

The admirals meticulously picked apart and attacked nearly every major decision that he made on Feb. 9, when he took 16 civilians out for a demonstration cruise and, during one emergency exercise, roared to the surface and crashed into the 190-foot trawler Ehime Maru, sinking it within minutes.