She would not cross the Atlantic again, and after spending time laid up at Birkenhead, she was finally sold for £16,750 in October 1909. On 10 October 1910, the Mersey tug "Black Cock" towed "Etruria" to her final destination of Preston, Lancashire, where she was scrapped. Her sale for scrap was announced in mid November 1909. In January 1911 it was reported that over the past two years Thos W Ward alone had broken up five Cunarders: "Lucania", "Etruria", "Aleppo", "Saragosssa" and "Cherbourg" and had five P & O boats in their yards during 1910.