 Salvage operations then took "Recovery" north to assist and other vessels in pulling decommissioned destroyer off the beach at Montauk Point, N.Y.The destroyer was floated, but because damage was beyond economic repair, she was towed out to sea and sunk by gunfire from the ARS and the ATF.In July "Recovery" returned to Cape Canaveral and joined the support force for Major Grissom's suborbital flight.