After commissioning, the McCall was attached to the Torpedo Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet, and operated along the Atlantic coast, primarily out of Newport, Rhode Island and the Chesapeake Bay area. Each winter found her in Cuban waters for maneuvers.
In 1916, the McCall made Neutrality Patrols off New York and along the New England coast. On 14 June 1917, following overhaul in Philadelphia, she steamed to New York to escort a troop convoy to Europe.
The McCall continued escort duties in the western Atlantic until January 1918 when she sailed for Queenstown, Ireland. Arriving there on 22 February, she provided escort and rescue services until 16 December.
Upon return to the United States in January 1918, she resumed east coast operations until decommissioned in Philadelphia on 12 December 1919 and placed in the reserve fleet.
She was transferred to the United States Coast Guard on 7 June 1924 and commissioned into service 17 June 1925 after a lengthy overhaul. Stationed at New London, Connecticut, she was part of the Rum Patrol.
The Coast Guard decommissioned her 12 August 1930. She was returned to the Navy on 18 October and was scrapped and sold on 2 May 1934, in accordance with the London Naval Treaty.
--Cooter
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