 While based in Philadelphia for the next 11 months , Connecticut trained midshipmen . On 2 May 1920 , 200 midshipmen boarded the ship for a training cruise . In company with the other battleships of her squadron , Connecticut sailed to the Caribbean and through the Panama Canal in order to visit four ports @-@ of @-@ call : Honolulu , Seattle , San Francisco , and San Pedro Bay ( Los Angeles and Long Beach ) . After visiting all four , the squadron made their way back through the canal and headed for home . However , the port engine of Connecticut gave out three days after transiting the canal , requiring New Hampshire to tow the battleship into Guantánamo Bay . The pair arrived on 28 August . The midshipmen were debarked there , and Vice Admiral Jones transferred his flag from Connecticut to his new flagship , Kansas . The Navy repair ship Prometheus was dispatched from New York on 1 September to tow Connecticut to Philadelphia ; they arrived at the Navy Yard there on 11 September . 
