Service History
Dahlgren joined the Atlantic Fleet for exercises and training along the east coast, in Mexican waters, off Guantanamo Bay and in the Panama Canal Zone. She took part in the Presidential Fleet Review at Norfolk, Virginia in April 1921, and in bombing tests on former German ships off the Virginia coast that summer. On 30 June 1922, she was placed out of commission at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Recommissioned 25 October 1932, Dahlgren stood out of Norfolk 7 November for San Diego, California, arriving 30 November. Destroyer operations engaged her along the west coast until April 1934 when fleet exercises brought her to the Atlantic. In January 1935 she returned to San Diego. After a period of similar operations on the west coast, she sailed again for the east on 1 July 1937, and having rescued the crew of a Coast Guard seaplane in passage, arrived at New York 21 July 1937. She served in engineering experiments until 14 June 1940.
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