 She arrived in Chiriquí Lagoon, Panama on 12 January and participated in a search for a lost seaplane from .While there, the destroyer tender also changed the starboard propeller of .Standing out of Limon Bay, Panama on 25 January, "Bridgeport" visited Culebra, Puerto Rico, and Kingston, Jamaica, before she served as a reference vessel for torpedo practices being conducted by destroyers off Culebra.