Decommissioning and Sale
Norris was decommissioned on 4 December 1970, and struck from the Navy List on 1 February 1974. Transferred to Turkey on 1 July 1974, where the ship was renamed TCG Kocatepe. Kocatepe was sold as scrap to Hurdasan Anonim Sirketi in June 1994.
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“[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it’s power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of their virtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)