 On 2 May 1910 Massachusetts was placed in reduced commission so she could be used for the annual Naval Academy midshipmen summer cruise . Despite her modernizations the battleship was now regarded as " obsolete and worthless , even for the second line of defense " by Secretary of the Navy George von Lengerke Meyer . She saw little use other than summer cruises and was transferred to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet when it was formed in 1912 . After a quick trip to New York for a Presidential Fleet Review in October 1912 , the warship returned to Philadelphia and stayed there until she was decommissioned on 23 May 1914 . 
