sentences:  She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 3 July 1946 and sold 3 October 1947 to Leopoldo Simoncini of Buenos Aires as the Costa Rican-flagged "St. Christopher".In 1953 she was chartered for salvage operations in Beagle Channel on the sunken Hamburg South America Line ocean liner along with several Argentine Navy vessels.After suffering engine trouble and rudder damage in 1954, she was laid up at Ushuaia, Argentina.