In between her cycles of drills and exercises in the "Med," "Worcester" visited Augusta, Sicily; Bizerte; Genoa and La Spezia, Italy; and Golfe Juan, on the southern coast of France, before she put into Phaleron Bay on 20 July. However, she was there only a week before she received orders to sail for the Far East. While the light cruiser and her consorts had been operating in the Mediterranean, war had broken out in Korea on 25 June. Accordingly, Worcester departed Phaleron Bay on 27 July, in company with Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 21 composed of , , , and . Reaching Port Said, Egypt, on the morning of 29 July, "Worcester" transited the Suez Canal that afternoon.