Inter-war Period
Beale operated out of Queenstown on convoy and patrol duty until the end of World War I. She returned to the United States in December 1918 and served with the Atlantic Fleet until placed out of commission in reserve at Philadelphia Navy Yard on 25 October 1919. Reactivated in 1924, Beale was transferred to the Coast Guard on 28 April 1924 for use in enforcing the Prohibition Act. She was returned to the Navy on 18 October 1930 and was laid up at Philadelphia Navy Yard until scrapped in 1934.
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