 She then spent the first half of October at the New York Navy Yard.Returning to Charleston on 15 October, "Bridgeport" worked there into late December, when she returned to the New York Navy Yard for the rest of 1921.The year 1922 found "Bridgeport" continuing her service on the East Coast, mostly between Narragansett Bay and Hampton Roads, tending destroyers and assisting in destroyer target practices on the Southern Drill Grounds off the Virginia Capes.