Pre-World War I
Patterson departed Philadelphia on 23 October 1911, calling at Newport, Rhode Island, and New York, before arriving at Boston, Massachusetts on 2 November, her homeport for operations off the New England Coast, the Virginia Capes, and south to Charleston, South Carolina, Pensacola, Florida, and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. She arrived off Vera Cruz from Pensacola on 20 May 1914 and headed home four days later.
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