Decommissioning and Fate
USS Canberra was decommissioned on 2 February 1970 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 31 July 1978. She was sold for scrap to National Metal on 15 July 1980, and removed from the Suisun Bay Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility on 1 August and broken up.
One of the ship's propellers was placed on display at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum. The ship's bell was kept in storage, and despite US law preventing the possession of naval artifacts by other nations, a successful campaign saw the bell presented to Australian Prime Minister John Howard by US President George W. Bush on 10 September 2001, as commemoration for the 50 years of the ANZUS treaty. The 250-pound (110 kg) bell was placed on display in the USA Gallery of the Australian National Maritime Museum.
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