Final Decommissioning and Sale
She was decommissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 14 May 1889, and her name was struck from the Navy List on 6 January 1890. She was sold by public auction at the Norfolk Navy Yard on 25 March 1891 to E. J. Butler.
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