Decommissioning and Sale
Decommissioned at Orange, Texas, on 21 December, she remained berthed there as a unit of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet until 1 September 1961, when she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register. Transferred to the Maritime Administration, she was berthed at Beaumont, Texas, as a unit of the National Defense Reserve Fleet into 1991. Narragansett was sold to the Republic of China (Taiwan) on 20 June 1991, where she was reactivated as Ta Feng (ATF-555).
Ta Feng was still in active service as recently as 2005.
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