Inter-war Period
Then, on 13 November 1919, she stood out of Norfolk to carry home the remains of the late Italian Ambassador to the United States. While in the Mediterranean Sea she called at Athens, Constantinople, Valencia, and Gibraltar before returning to the Caribbean for the annual spring maneuvers. In the summer of 1921, she took part in the Army-Navy bombing tests off the Virginia Capes in which Frankfurt and Ostfriesland were sunk to demonstrate the potentialities of air power. She interrupted fleet operations during the next two summers to again cruise with midshipmen, contributing to the future strength of the Navy by educating its officers-to-be. The cruise of 1923 took her to Scandinavia, Scotland, and Spain.
North Dakota was decommissioned at Norfolk on 22 November 1923 with a number of other battleships, under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty. Demilitarized and reclassified as "unclassified" on 29 May 1924, North Dakota was converted to a Mobile Gunnery Target ship and remained in that service until replaced by Utah in 1930. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 7 January 1931 and she sold for scrapping to the Union Shipbuilding Co of Baltimore, Md on 16 March 1931. Her steam turbine engines were fitted in Nevada.
A model of North Dakota is on display at the North Dakota Heritage Center on the grounds of the state capitol in Bismarck, North Dakota.
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