Final Decommissioning
Onslow was decommissioned for the second and final time on 22 April 1960 and was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 June 1960. She was sold on 18 October 1960 to the Philippine Presidents Line, Inc., for use as a commercial ferry.
Still in service as a ferry in the Philippines in 1975, the former Onslow was among the ships that the U.S. Navy hired to assist in the evacuation of refugees from South Vietnam upon the collapse of that country at the end of the Vietnam War in April of that year.
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