Assigned To The Air Force and Fate
Withdrawn from the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet on 2 April 1957, she was lent to the Air Force in September 1957. Chestatee was transferred by the Air Force to the Olympia, Wa branch of the National Defense Reserve Fleet on 14 September 1962 and was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 June 1963. On 2 June 1971, Chestatee was transferred to the Suisun Bay branch of the National Defense Reserve Fleet due to the closure of the Olympia fleet site.
Chestatee was sold on 16 October 1975 as part of a lot of 7 vessels to the Levin Metals Corporation of San Jose, Ca. She was removed from the Suisun Bay fleet on 16 February 1977 and was scrapped shortly afterwards.
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