 In 1919 , she assisted in the unsuccessful first attempt to lay the <unk> Channel pilot cable . In July 1920 , she was assigned the hull code of DD @-@ 51 under the US Navy 's <unk> classification system . O 'Brien was decommissioned at Philadelphia on 5 June 1922 . The ship was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 8 March 1935 , and broken up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard , and her materials sold for scrap on 23 April . The ship 's bell remains in the Plattsburgh Memorial Chapel on the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base . 
