Naval Forces, France, escorting convoys inbound to British and French ports, and outbound for Bermuda.

Frequently sent to aid ships which had reported sighting Imperial German Navy submarines, she rescued survivors from the sea twice in July 1918.

At the end of World War I, she had duty on regular mail and passenger runs between Brest and Plymouth, England, and on 8 May 1919, she put out from Plymouth escorting the ships carrying President Woodrow Wilson and United States Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Brest for the Paris Peace Conference.

Designated for inclusion in the fulfillment of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement, she proceeded to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where she was decommissioned 23 October 1940 The destroyer was transferred to the United Kingdom and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Leeds on 23 October 1940, the day of her transfer.

Under the Rosyth Command, she escorted convoys in the North Sea between the Thames and the Firth of Forth, successfully weathering many air attacks.