Post-war Decommissioning
Arriving at Orange, Texas, on 2 April 1946, she was decommissioned there on 22 June 1946 and placed in reserve. The ship was reclassified MSF-297 on 7 February 1955.
She was struck from the Navy list on 1 April 1960 and sold. She became a British merchantman named M/V Giant II and used as a cable ship; sold in March 1968 to the Dillingham Corp. and leased to the University of Hawaii as a research vessel; renamed M/S Mahi; sold in 1982 to Dacor Scuba Diving to be sunk as an artificial reef; and sunk approximately one mile off the Waianae coast in 90 feet of water. A U.S. Flag was raised on the mast of the Mahi on 26 May 2008 by SFC (Ret) Shawn McElravy, US Army, to commemorate Memorial Day. SFC (Ret) McElravy replaced the flag with a new one on 25 May 2009.
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