Following two Midshipmen cruises, she was decommissioned in December 1921. During World War I, she trained sailors, participated in escort duty, and brought 4,000 veterans back to the United States in 1919. Embassy at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, by delivering U.S. operations in Veracruz and Tampico, Mexico, and to secure the U.S. Following a cruise to Europe, South Carolina steamed to the Gulf of Mexico in 1913-14 to support U.S. Her weaponry design was a distinct change from a mixed-caliber-gun to an all-big-gun, the first American dreadnought. The lead ship of her class of two ships, USS South Carolina (Battleship #26) was commissioned on March 1, 1910, at William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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