West Coast on 12 June. Kitty Hawk received news of the end of hostilities on 13 August 1945, while at Pearl Harbor. Basing from Pearl Harbor, she carried military cargo to the Marshall Islands, the Mariana Islands, and the Philippines. She departed Pearl Harbor on 24 November for the East Coast. Kitty Hawk arrived Bayonne, New Jersey on 15 December; visited Norfolk, Virginia: decommissioned at New York on 24 January 1946; and was returned to her owner, Seatrain Lines, Inc., the same day. Post war USS Kitty Hawk was leased to United Fruit Company on the day of decommissioning and returned to her original owners in May 1946. Reverted to her old name SS Seatrain New York in Chester, PA, she remained a cargo ship until being sold to Hua Eng Copper and Iron Industrial Company Limited of Taiwan for scrapping in March 1973. References Bibliography External links navsource.org: USS Kitty Hawk Aircraft transports of the United States Navy 1932 ships Ships built by the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company