 Refurbished , the destroyer got underway for the Caribbean on 8 January 1917 . Steaming via Hampton Roads , Virginia , she reached Culebra Island , near Puerto Rico , on the 14th and conducted war games exercises with the Atlantic Fleet . In the course of those operations , she visited the Dominican Republic as well as Guantanamo Bay and Santiago in Cuba . Later that month , Wainwright carried Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Brigadier General George Barnett , the Commandant of the Marine Corps ; and the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission from Santiago to Port @-@ au @-@ Prince , Haiti . Following that assignment , Wainwright conducted torpedo exercises , patrols , and power trials near Guantanamo Bay until the beginning of March . 
