Retirement
In late September, S-43 shifted to San Francisco, California, where she was decommissioned on 10 October 1945. Stripped the same month, her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 13 November, and her hulk was sold for scrap to the Salco Iron and Metal Company in San Francisco the following year.
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Famous quotes containing the word retirement:
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—Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)
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We may boldly spend, upon the hope
Of what is to come in.
A comfort of retirement lives in this.
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