 New Jersey spent the next several years in the peacetime routine of the Atlantic Fleet , with various training maneuvers and gunnery practice in the Atlantic and Caribbean . During this period , she spent a year out of commission at Boston from 2 May 1910 to 15 July 1911 , and in the summers of 1912 and 1913 , she conducted training cruises for midshipmen from the United States Naval Academy . The ship was deployed to the Caribbean to protect American interests as the Mexican Revolution worsened in late 1913 . On 21 April 1914 , the United States occupied Veracruz in the aftermath of the Tampico Affair . On 13 August , New Jersey departed Mexican waters and steamed to Santo Domingo , where unrest gripped both the Dominican Republic and Haiti . After observing conditions in the two countries , the ship continued on , arriving in Hampton Roads on 9 October . She spent the next three years conducting her normal training routine . 
