The Winslow was returned to full commission by 30 June 1901 and assigned to the Naval Torpedo Statopn at Newport, spending then next three years training naval officers and enlisted men the techniques of torpedo firing and helping them polish their skills in gunnery and shopboard engineering.
Most likely, she also participated in some work to improve the "automotive" torpedo.
Not much is known as to her activities between July 1904 and February 1906, but probably spent the majority of it in reserve or out of commission on New York. The Winslow was recommissioned at New York Navy Yard on 16 February 1906 and steamed south to Norfolk where she was placed in the Reserve Torpedo Flotilla.
Sometime in 1909, she was transferred to Charleston, S.C., but remained in reserve.
On 1 June 1909, she was turned over to the Massachusetts Naval Militia at Charlestown and later moved north to Boston where she served as a school ship for volunteer seaman for a local naval militia until the following November.
On 2 November 1909, the Massachusetts Naval Militia returned the Winslow to the Navy and she was in Boston Navy Yard in reserve until the summer of 1010. She was then placed out of commission at Boston and sold in 1911.
Sometime around October 1923, the Winslow, along with other decommissioned vessels, was scuttled near Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island to form a breakwater.
--Cooter
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