She was the second vessel of the United States Revenue Cutter Service or U.S. Coast Guard to bear the name Patrol.

Patrol was a wooden-hulled vessel built at City Island, New York.

She spent her Navy career on patrol duties based at New York City.

The Navy returned Patrol to the Coast Guard on 28 August 1919, and she resumed her duties in New York Harbor as USCGC Patrol.

In 1923, she was transferred to Washington, D.C. She returned to New York in the 1930s, was renamed USCGC AB-38 in 1938, and was decommissioned in 1940.