Over the next three years, the battleship was actively employed as a training ship. representative to the British Coronation naval review. After being transferred to the Atlantic in the mid-1930s, she visited England in 1937 as the U.S. New York underwent modernization in 1925-27, receiving new oil-fired boilers, anti-torpedo bulges on her hull sides, heavier deck armor, up-to-date gunfire control mechanisms and many other improvements that enhanced her combat capabilities. As a unit of the Battle Fleet, she took an active part in the exercises, drills and gunnery practices that were regularly held in the Pacific and Caribbean. In mid-1919, New York transited the Panama Canal to the Pacific, where she was based during the next decade and a half.
battleships of the Sixth Battle Squadron during the remainder of the First World War. After more than three years of operations off the east coast and in the Caribbean, in December 1917 New York crossed the Atlantic to join the British Grand Fleet.
Commissioned in April 1914, her first active service was off Vera Cruz, Mexico, during the U.S. USS New York, lead ship of a two-ship class of 27,000-ton battleships, was built at the New York Navy Yard.
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