Commercial Service
Hansford was redelivered to the Maritime Commission and sold 20 May 1947 to Isthmian Lines, who registered her in New York and renamed her Steel Apprentice. The vessel operated in the service of Ithsmian from 1949 until 1969.
On 20 October 1953, navigating in thick fog and without operable radar, the Steel Apprentice struck Elbow of Cross Ledge Light head-on, knocking most of the lighthouse into the Delaware Bay.
Steel Apprentice was scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in May 1973.
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