Final Decommissioning and Disposal
Scorpion was decommissioned at Philadelphia on 27 October 1927, and was struck from the Navy List on 23 March 1929. Following this, she was sold to the Boston Iron and Metal Company of Baltimore, Maryland on 25 June.
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