Inactivation and Use As A Training Ship
On 26 September 1968 she decommissioned and was placed in service as a U.S Naval Reserve training ship, based at Perth Amboy, New Jersey. She continued to give reservists first hand training into 1969.
Limpkin was transferred to Indonesia in 1971 as Pulau Anjer (M 719); struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1976; and disposed of for scrap through the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service on 1 September 1976.
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