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began overhaul at New York. That occupied her time until 1 May when the destroyer embarked upon her most noteworthy postwar mission—duty as a picket ship for the first transatlantic flight. Only one of the four Navy-Curtiss (NC) flying boats slated for the mission actually completed the flight.
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pointed her bow homeward. The destroyer reentered New York harbor on 4 June and resumed peacetime operations along the
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waters. She returned from those operations at the height of the crisis over the German declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare, arriving in
Norfolk on 7 March 1917. Just one month later, on 6 April, the
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European continent. The NC-4 reached her destination that same day, and
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