Merchant Service As The Salta
She was sold into merchant service to Argentina on 20 June 1947 as the Salta, named after the Argentinian city. The Newport News shipyard did the conversion.
In 1963 she was the first ship on scene at the rescue of passengers and crew from the Greek liner Lakonia when it caught fire in the Atlantic. At the time she was under the command of Captain José Barrere, on its way from Genoa, Italy, to Buenos Aires. The Salta rescued 475 people and took aboard most of Lakonia's lifeboats.
Salta was scrapped in Buenos Aires in 1966.
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