 After her July 1915 commissioning , Wadsworth served on the neutrality patrol off the east coast and in the Caribbean . After the United States entered World War I in April 1917 , Wadsworth was the flagship of the first U.S. destroyer squadron sent overseas . Patrolling the Irish Sea out of Queenstown , Ireland , Wadsworth reported several encounters with U @-@ boats in the first months overseas . She was transferred to Brest , France , in March 1918 , and spent the remainder of the war there . 
