World War I
The battleship called at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Santa Domingo en route home to Philadelphia, where she arrived on 18 June. Following maneuvers and tactics ranging north to Newport, Rhode Island during the summer, Kentucky arrived New York on 2 October and remained in the North River until the end of the year. She entered New York Naval Shipyard for repairs on 1 January 1917 and was still there when the United States entered World War I. She arrived at Yorktown, Virginia on 2 May for duty as a training ship and trained recruits on cruises in Chesapeake Bay and along the Atlantic coast as far north as Long Island Sound. When the Armistice was signed on 11 November 1918, she was training her 15th group of recruits, having already trained several thousand men for service in ships of the war-expanded Navy.
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