Post-war and Fate
On 22 March, Tangier set sail for the U.S. She made a brief visit to Pearl Harbor in early April and transited the Panama Canal in mid-month. She reached Norfolk, Va. on the 29th and Philadelphia, Pa. on 1 May. Following a short voyage back to Norfolk and to Yorktown, Va., the seaplane tender returned to Philadelphia on 11 May to prepare for in-activation. By January 1947, Tangier was out of commission, berthed with the Reserve Fleet at Philadelphia. On 1 June 1961, her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register, and on 17 November she was sold to the Union Minerals & Alloys Corp. for scrapping.
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