 Embarking passengers for stateside, "Griswold" cleared Tokyo 6 days later and arrived San Pedro, California on 8 October via Eniwetok and Pearl Harbor.She decommissioned there on 19 November 1945, and was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 December.The hulk was sold to Dulien Steel Products, Seattle, Wash., for scrapping on 27 November 1946.