Following her commissioning Bridge loaded stores and provisions, and transported and issued them to the fleet and shore stations.

On 1 October 1917, she came to the assistance of the patrol vessel USS Mohawk, which had collided with the British tanker Vennacher off Sandy Hook, New Jersey.

King, future Chief of Naval Operations and Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet during World War II.

With the entry of the United States into World War II Bridge expanded her Pacific voyages to include the Fiji, Tonga, and New Caledonia Islands.

While operating off Korea on 1 November, she struck a mine and suffered considerable damage but no personnel casualties.

She was decommissioned at Sasebo on 27 June 1946, turned over to the Foreign Liquidation Commission for disposal and was sold to Madrigal Shipping Company, Manila, Philippines, on 22 December 1947.