Through the spring of 1946, she prepared landing craft for the mothball fleet, then on 15 July was herself decommissioned.

Just occasionally, for mothball fleets, the odd war, and the like.

In 1990, Iowa was decommissioned for the last time and placed in the mothball fleet.

Then the defenders would concentrate on the leading ship, the probe, and possibly never even notice the one heading in toward the mothball fleet.

And if that ship had the proper codes, which we can easily check with the fighter, then the mothball fleet would not react.

She was the only Liberty Ship to leave the mothball fleet under her own power.

In 2010, plans were announced to remove the mothball fleet in stages, with final removal by 2017.

The ship was still owned by the Navy and was considered part of the mothball fleet.

"We want to go to the mothball fleet around Jupiter," she told it.

Project a course that will take them in to the mothball fleet from here without Master System's alert or detection.