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===Hospital ship, 1913–1926===
The old cruiser continued to serve her country following her Navy service.  Turned over to the [[United States Public Health Service|Public Health Service]], she served as [[Lazaretto|quarantine hulk]] for the hospital in [[Providence, Rhode Island]], until 1918 when she returned to the Navy to serve throughout [[World War I]] as an annex to the [[Naval Health Clinic New England#Naval Hospital Newport|Naval Hospital]], [[Newport, Rhode Island]].  Later transferred to New York, she returned to the Public Health Service at Providence, in May 1919. On 7 July 1926 she was again returned to the [[United States Department of the Navy|Navy Department]] for disposal and was sold on 7 September.<ref name=DANFS />