Left for Westpac tour April 1,1972 for ship repairs of all kinds on ships of all kinds. Ports visited were Subic Bay for most of the 9-month tour. Other ports visited were Hong Kong for R & R, Kaohsiung, Taiwan and Yokosuka, Japan and Da Nang, Vietnam and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Pearl was for loading weapons on way to Asia and off load of weapons on return to States. While in Da Nang harbor the Piedmont crew replaced 5” gun barrels on several destroyers. Returned to Long Beach in December 1972.