USS Preble (DD-12) - World War I

World War I

Torpedo practice, gunnery exercises and minesweeping operations followed, and during the summer of 1915, Preble participated in a cruise to Alaskan waters to gather logistic information. After another period in reserve status (25 October 1916-3 April 1917), Preble departed San Diego, California on 30 April 1917, for the east coast. She arrived at Norfolk, Virginia on 13 July, and until the end of World War I was engaged in coastwise convoy duty along the mid-Atlantic seaboard. Remaining on the east coast after the war, she decommissioned at New York, on 11 July 1919. Her name was struck from the Navy List on 15 September 1919 and she was sold, on 3 January 1920, to Joseph G. Hitner of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.