Inter-war Period
Vermont entered the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 5 November and was there converted to a troop transport. She subsequently sailed from Norfolk on 9 January 1919 on the first of four round-trip voyages, returning "doughboys" from "over there". During her time as a transport, the battleship carried some 5,000 troops back to the United States, completing her last voyage on 20 June.
Prepared at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for inactivation, Vermont departed the east coast on 18 July, sailing from Hampton Roads on that day, bound for the west coast. After transiting the Panama Canal, the battleship visited San Diego, California, San Pedro, California, Monterey, California, and Long Beach, California, Astoria, Oregon, and San Francisco, California, before reaching the Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California on 18 September. There, the battleship was decommissioned on 30 June 1920. She was reclassified as BB-20 on 17 July. (She was previously known simply as "Battleship #20.")
Vermont remained inactive at Mare Island until her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Registry on 10 November 1923. She was then sold for scrapping on 30 November in accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty limiting naval armaments.
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