1980s
Seaman Jose Cantu was the only fatality from Hurricane Iwa in November 1982. Lieutenant Ray Beard survived the incident after being washed overboard with a broken arm.
Admiral James D. Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations visited the ship in January 1986. The Admiral remarked how he had previously sighted the ship in 1964 from his submarine's periscope, Snook, "Goldsborough looked formidable then, and still is a formidable warship now."
Goldsborough was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 29 April 1993 and sold to Australia on 17 September 1993 as a parts hulk. The ship arrived in Sydney in early 1994, and a four-man team set about removing equipment for installation in the Royal Australian Navy's Perth class destroyers (a derivative of the Charles F. Adams class). While in Australian hands, the team painted the number 40 on the bow, filling a gap in the number sequence for their three destroyers. After all usable equipment had been stripped, Goldsborough was sold to an Indian company in August 1994, and towed away for ship breaking.
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