The ship wasn't scrapped, however and was sold to the War Shipping Administration in 1942 and converted to wartime use by the Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock, Co. of Portsmouth, Virginia from October 1942 to August 1943. It was renamed the USS Butte but sent to the Coast guard where it became the USCGC Mayflower and was commissioned 19 August 1943.
As such, it patrolled the Atlantic coast in search of U-boats and escorted coastal shipping. Later it served as a radar training ship. it was decommissioned in 1946 and sold to private owners It later ended up belonging to Israel and was broken up in 1955.
Quite an Interesting History. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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