Final Decommissioning
On 22 January 1959, she moved to the San Francisco Naval Shipyard where, on 30 January 1959, she decommissioned. Silverstein remained at San Francisco, berthed as a unit of the Pacific Reserve Fleet until 1 December 1972 when her name was struck from the Navy List. A year later, on 3 December 1973, her hulk was sold to Levin Metals Corp. of San Jose, California, for scrapping.
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