Post-war Decommissioning
The transport left the west coast on 6 October, bound, via the Panama Canal, for Norfolk, Virginia, and arrived there on 27 October. She was decommissioned on 26 November and turned over to the War Shipping Administration in whose custody she resumed the name SS Daniel Boone. The name, Ara, was struck from the Navy List on 5 December. SS Daniel Boone was listed in registers of American merchant vessels until the early 1970s until she was scrapped in 1972.
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