Inter-war Period
Delaware remained at York River until 12 November 1918, then sailed to Boston Navy Yard for an overhaul. On 11 March 1919, she joined the Fleet in Cuban waters for exercises. Returning to New York on 14 April she continued to operate in division, squadron and fleet maneuvers, and participated in the Naval Review at Hampton Roads on 28 April 1921. She made two midshipmen practice cruises, one to Colón, Panama, Martinique, and other ports in the Caribbean, and to Halifax, Nova Scotia from 5 June–31 August 1922; and a second to Europe, visiting Copenhagen, Greenock, Cádiz, and Gibraltar from 9 July–29 August 1923.
Delaware entered Norfolk Navy Yard on 30 August, and her crew was transferred to Colorado, a newly commissioned battleship assigned to replace Delaware in the Fleet. Moving to Boston Navy Yard in September, she was stripped of warlike equipment, she was decommissioned and stricken on 10 November 1923. Delaware was sold on 5 February 1924 to the Boston Iron & Metal Co of Baltimore, Maryland and scrapped in accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty on the limitation of armaments.
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