In August 1973, New London County was sold to Chile where she served as Comandante Hemmerdinger (LST-88). She was taken out of service on 14 October 1983 and sold for commercial service, 19 January 1984, renamed M/V Maquiserv, Chilean flagged, out of Valparaiso. Her fate from that point is unknown.
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