Decommissioning & Disposal
Comte de Grasse was decommissioned and stricken 5 June 1998 and held at Philadelphia Naval Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility (NISMF) as a parts hulk.
On 7 June 2006, Comte De Grasse was towed approximately 275 miles off the coast of North Carolina and sunk along with her sister ship, Stump, as a target during naval training exercises in a water depth of 12,000 ft.
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