Fate
Yarborough was decommissioned on 29 May 1930; and, on 3 November 1930, her name was struck from the Navy List. Scrapped on 20 December of the same year, her remains were sold as scrap metal on 25 February 1932.
As of 2005, no other ships have been named Yarborough.
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Famous quotes containing the word fate:
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On life’s rough ocean luckless starr’d:”
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