USS Ringness (DE-590) - Lay-up, Decommissioning, Reclassification, and Disposal

Lay-up, Decommissioning, Reclassification, and Disposal

Ringness reported for lay-up at Green Cove Springs, Florida, on 4 April 1946. She was subsequently towed from Green Cove Springs to Naval Station Mayport at Mayport, Florida, and Naval Station Charleston at Charleston, South Carolina, at various times in 1947 and 1948.

Ringness was decommissioned and placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet in January 1951, berthed at Green Cove Springs. In 1959 she was towed to Norfolk, where she remained as part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet Norfolk Group until berthed at Orange, Texas, in 1966 as part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet Texas Group. Reclassified as an "amphibious transport, small," and redesignated LPR-1 on 1 July 1969, Ringness was sold for scrapping on 1 July 1975.