After training and shakedown, Henley joined the US Atlantic Torpedo Fleet at Newport, Rhode Island, for a peacetime career of tactical exercises and training maneuvers along the coast from the Caribbean to the North Atlantic.

On 22 April 1914, she joined the fleet off Tampico, Mexico, to protect American citizens and property in the face of revolution in that country.

With war in Europe that fall, she began Neutrality Patrol along the coast and checked belligerent vessels in American ports.

For the remainder of the war, Henley performed convoy duty along the coast and carried out anti-submarine patrol off New York Harbor.

She returned to the Navy on 8 May 1931 and was sold for scrap to Michael Flynn Inc of Brooklyn, New York on 22 August 1934.