 "Bridgeport" sailed for Charleston on 8 September, and reached that port on 14 September to serve the destroyers based there.The ship remained at Charleston into the early part of May 1921 when she sailed for New York, accompanying the fleet's destroyers northward to the Narragansett Bay operating areas.After a visit to New York City from 14 to 31 May 1921, "Bridgeport" arrived at Newport on 1 June and remained there, tending destroyers, into late September.