Concord served in the Far East between 1947 and 1957 as part of the 8th Destroyer Squadron. In 1949, she was involved in the
Amethyst Incident.
Concord entered the
River Yangtze and proceeded to a point off the
Woosung Fort, the location of a heavy gun battery from the mouth of the river. Lieutenant Commander Kerans, commanding the
sloop , had from the beginning requested that
Concord should meet him there to give protection at the most critical point of his escape.
Concord provided sailors to fill out the thinned ranks aboard
Amethyst and the two ships made their way downriver There was no boom at the mouth of the river. After handing over the escort of
Amethyst to other vessels,
Concord was ordered to Japan.
Concord went on to serve during the
Korean War. ==Decommissioning and disposal==