Post-war Decommissioning
Arriving at San Pedro 10 January 1946, she commenced inactivation. Decommissioned 5 March, she was struck from the Navy List 12 April 1947 and was transferred to the Maritime Commission in June 1947 for disposal. Later that year, she was sold to Compania de Petroleo Lago, in Maracaibo, Venezuela and renamed the Esso Maracaibo. In April 1964, she collided with the recently inaugurated General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge across the Maracaibo ship channel, destroying one of the spans and causing the deaths of seven people. Later renamed Lagoven Maracaibo, the ship was eventually scrapped in Taiwan in June 1985.
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