The ship served as a patrol vessel at Norfolk, Virginia at the beginning of World War I before being assigned convoy duty in the Mediterranean.

In February 1919 Algonquin was transferred to the West Coast and served in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska until being decommissioned at San Francisco in December 1930.

[5] On 8 September 1898, Algonquin was ordered to Philadelphia and thereafter to the Delaware Breakwater to receive a gun from USRC Levi Woodbury.

[2] When President Woodrow Wilson asked the Congress of the United States for a declaration war against Germany on 6 April 1917, the Coast Guard was transferred to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Navy.

[5] Algonquin was returned to Department of the Treasury control on 28 August 1919, after its arrival in the 13th Naval District where it served in Alaska and the Pacific.