 After the war , Massachusetts sailed for Puget Sound and overhaul 1 September . She left there 28 January 1946 for operations off the California coast , until leaving San Francisco , California , for Hampton Roads , arriving 22 April . She was decommissioned on 27 March 1947 to enter the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Norfolk , Virginia , and was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 June 1962 . After being stricken , approximately 5 @,@ 000 tons of equipment were stripped from Massachusetts for use on other naval vessels , including both of the explosively driven catapults used to launch float planes . 
