Kentuckys engine plants were used to power the fast combat support ships USS Sacramento (AOE-1)[?] and USS Camden (AOE-2)[?].
In May or June 1956, Kentuckys bow was removed and transported on a large crane barge from Newport News, Virginia, where she had been towed, back to Norfolk Naval Shipyard, to be used in the repair of USS Wisconsin (BB-64), which had been damaged in a collision with USS Eaton (DDE-510)[?] on 6 May 1956.
Kentucky was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 9 June 1958 and her incomplete hulk was sold for scrapping to Boston Metals Company of Baltimore, Maryland, on 31 October.
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