Post-war Decommissioning On The East Coast
Gosper arrived Newport News, Virginia, 24 February 1946, and decommissioned 10 April 1946. She was subsequently returned to the Maritime Commission and placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet in the James River, Virginia. In 1946 she was struck from the Navy List and in 1974 she was scrapped.
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