 "Bridgeport" completed several transatlantic convoy crossings before she was stationed at Brest, France, where she remained in a support role after the end of World War I.After returning to the United States in November 1919, she spent the next five years along the East Coast and in the Caribbean tending destroyers and conducting training missions.She was decommissioned in November 1924 and placed in reserve at the Boston Navy Yard.