In March 1957 , she sailed for the western Pacific on a sixth tour to the area with the HSS-1s and S2Fs of VS-21 , VS-23 , and VS-37 . She was there for two months before returning to San Diego and resuming training missions off the west coast in summer 1957 . In November 1957 , she found some debris of Pan Am Flight 7 , an airline flight that disappeared en route to Hawaii . In January 1958 , she steamed west on her last 7th Fleet deployment . Remaining six months , she returned to San Diego on 15 July and commenced inactivation . She was decommissioned 28 December 1958 and berthed with the United States Reserve Fleet at Long Beach , California . She was redesignated '' ' AVT-11 ' '' , an auxiliary aircraft transport and landing training ship , on 15 May 1959 . After 10 years docked at the reserve fleet , she was struck from the Naval Vessel Registry on 1 December 1969 and sold for scrapping on 23 March 1971 to Zidell Explorations Corporation in Portland , Oregon
Pan Am Flight 7
Pan Am Flight 7
USS Philippine Sea (CV-47)