Idaho was decommissioned on July 3, 1946, she was stricken from the Navy Register on September 16, 1947, and ultimately sold for scrap to Lipsett Inc., of New York City on November 24, 1947.

The Nuclear Navy has ties to Idaho. Idaho Experience looks at the Naval Reactors Facility. In the early fifties, the U.S. Navy under the leadership of Admiral Hyman Rickover was hard at work ...