Returning to the west coast late in August 1953 , '' Bairoko '' remained there until January 1954 when she departed to assist in the hydrogen bomb tests in the Eniwetok Bikini area . During the Castle Bravo test on 1 March 1954 , sixteen crew members received beta radiation burns . From May through June 1954 she operated out of San Diego on training exercises . In July 1954 she reported to Long Beach Naval Shipyard to commence pre-inactivation overhaul and went out of commission in reserve at San Francisco 18 February 1955 . '' Bairoko '' was stricken for disposal on 1 April 1960 and scrapped at Hong Kong in 1961
Castle Bravo
Castle Bravo
USS Bairoko