During the following three years she ranged into the Caribbean Sea, exercising with the Flotilla, engaging in torpedo practice, and Fleet problems.

On 29 September, she and Lawrence escorted the President in Mayflower to Cape Cod Bay to witness record target practice.

They sailed from Hampton Roads on 2 December 1907, exchanging courtesies at various Mexican and South American ports en route.

After target practice in Magdelena Bay, the Flotilla arrived at San Francisco on 6 May 1908, in time for the review of the combined Atlantic and Pacific Fleets by the Secretary of the Navy.

[2] On 30 April 1917, after the United States entry into World War I, Hopkins departed San Diego for the Panama Canal Zone.