Post-war Operations
For William C. Cole, however, the end of the war did not mean the end to her activities. She escorted PC-1587 to Iwo Jima and later operated off that island on air-sea rescue assignments for the remainder of August. Cole then operated out of Iwo Jima on air-sea rescue assignments for the entire month of September and into October 1945 before she returned to Saipan, her base for similar operations until she departed the western Pacific, bound for the west coast of the United States.
After a yard availability at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, William C. Cole returned — via Pearl Harbor and Guam — to the Far East in the spring of 1946 and operated out of Shanghai, Okinawa, and Tsingtao into the summer. She then returned — via Guam, Kwajalein, and Pearl Harbor — to San Diego on 28 July. Following still another tour of duty in the Far East under the aegis of Commander, Naval Forces, Far East from 10 March to 31 August 1947 — at Sasebo, Pusan, Yokosuka, Wakayama, and Kagoshima — Cole operated locally out of San Diego until she was decommissioned and placed in reserve on 13 March 1948. She was later inactivated on 28 April of that year.
William C. Cole remained in reserve until struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 March 1972. She was then sold to Zidell Explorations, Inc., of Portland, Oregon, on 20 November 1972 and subsequently scrapped.
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