Solomons spent the rest of her active service engaged in qualifying Navy and Marine pilots in carrier landings , initially off Quonset Point RI . In January 1945 , she moved to Port Everglades , Florida , and continued her carrier landing qualification assignment throughout 1945 . For a week in December , she participated in an unsuccessful search for the 14 airmen of Flight 19 , and the 13 from the ill-fated rescue mission . On 15 May 1946 , '' Solomons '' was decommissioned at Boston Naval Shipyard and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 June . Sold for scrap to the Patapsco Scrap Corp. , Bethlehem , Pennsylvania , she was delivered to its agent on 22 December at Newport , RI
Flight 19
Flight 19
USS Solomons (CVE-67)