 New Jersey spent her entire career in the Atlantic Fleet . In late 1906 , she took part in the Second Occupation of Cuba , and she participated in the Jamestown Exposition in April – May 1907 . At the end of the year , she joined the Great White Fleet for its circumnavigation of the globe , which lasted into 1909 . The ship spent the following five years conducting peacetime training . In April 1914 , New Jersey took part in the occupied Veracruz during the Mexican Revolution . During World War I , she was used as a training ship , and after the war , she was tasked with transporting American soldiers back from Europe . New Jersey was decommissioned in 1920 and slated for destruction in bombing tests in 1923 . Martin NBS @-@ 1 bombers sank the ship on 5 September 1923 in a series of bomb attacks . 
