Kammala wannan jumla: "Charleston" ya tashi daga Norfolk, Virginia a ranar 24 ga Fabrairun 1937 don shiga Squadron 40T, wanda ya ziyarci Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, Trieste, Naples, Italiya, da Algiers kafin ya koma Charleston Navy Yard don sabuntawa a ranar 24 ga Afrilu. Ranar 9 ga watan Yuli, ta tashi zuwa Balboa, Panama don horo da horo da yawa a cikin
Yankin Panama kafin ya koma arewa zuwa Charleston a ranar 1 ga Maris, 1938.