Post-war Decommissioning
Struck from the Navy list 19 July 1946, she was transferred to War Shipping Administration, 22 April 1947 and sold to Denmark. She was commissioned as a Royal Danish Naval Vessel on 27 February 1948 at New Orleans, Louisiana, and named Vitus Bering.
The Danish Navy operated her in 1948 and 1949 as a patrol vessel in Greenland waters, preferring wooden hulls in the cold conditions. The vessel was found to be unsuitable, however, due to numerous leaks and the corrosion problems associated with diesel-electric drives in a salt water environment. The vessel was retired from Danish Naval service in 1949 and scrapped.
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