The confrontation the USS Barataria saw near Cuba as part of the Cold War was 13 day longs.
 She then was transferred to the United States Coast Guard and was in commission as the Coast Guard cutter USCGC "Barataria" (WAVP-381), later WHEC-381 from 1949 to 1969, serving in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War during her lengthy Coast Guard career. 
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: "Crisis de Octubre" ), the Caribbean Crisis (Russian:   , "Karibskij krizis"), or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 1628, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. 
