The Navy towed her from Curtis Bay to a point 120 nautical miles off the coast of Virginia, where on 9 January 1968 the guided missile destroyer USS Claude V. Ricketts DDG-5 , one other Navy ship, The Coast Guard Historian's Office does not identify this second ship; see http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/CoosBay1949.asp and 35 aircraft sank her as a target.