 She arrived in Manila Bay on 30 April 1913, and—after launching her two submarines—began shuttling coal to American warships at ports in such placed as Guam, the Philippines, China, Japan, and even Burma.Soon after the United States entered the World War I, she towed the formerly interned German ship "Elsass" from Samoa to Honolulu, Hawaii.During the American intervention in Siberia at the end of World War I, she made deliveries to Vladivostok.