Decommissioning and Disposal
The Coast Guard decommissioned Coos Bay at Boston, Massachusetts, on 1 September 1966 and berthed her at Curtis Bay in Maryland, then returned her to the U.S. Navy on 2 September 1967. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
The Navy towed Coos Bay from Curtis Bay to a point in the Atlantic 120 nautical miles (220 km) off the coast of Virginia where on 9 January 1968 guided missile destroyer USS Claude V. Ricketts (DDG-5), one other Navy ship, and 35 aircraft sank her as a target.
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