Final Decommissioning
Johnnie Hutchins continued her vital task of keeping at a high level the skills and readiness of our reserve officers and men until decommissioning 25 February 1958 at Bayonne, New Jersey. She entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet and was berthed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was struck from the Navy list on 1 July 1972, and, on 5 February 1974, she was sold for scrapping.
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