Final Decommissioning and Fate
Mattabesset returned to her home port in August 1968. She decommissioned at Norfolk and her name was struck from the Navy list 1 October 1968. She was then transferred to the Maritime Administration on 26 June 1969 and was sold on the same day to the Peck Iron & Metal Co of Norfolk, Va for $26,863.42. Mattabesset was scrapped a short time later.
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