 There she started preparations for decommissioning and inactivation with the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.In October, she shifted to the inactive fleet berthing area at Green Cove Springs, Florida, where she was decommissioned on 24 March 1946.After six years of inactivity in Florida, "Sturtevant" was recommissioned on 3 August 1951, LCDR Richard B. Redmayne in command (Redmayne was a survivor of the sinking of the USS "Indianapolis" CA-35 in 1945 http