Decommissioning and Fate
Alden reached the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 15 June 1945 and was decommissioned there on 15 July. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 13 August, and the ship was sold to the Boston Metals Salvage Company, of Baltimore, Maryland, on 30 November 1945, to be broken up for scrap.
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