Decommissioning
Upon her return to Charleston on 24 June, the minesweeper commenced preinactivation procedures. Assurance was decommissioned at Charleston on 30 September 1977, and her name was struck from the Navy list simultaneously. In December 1979, the former minesweeper was sold to the Ampol Corp. for scrapping.
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