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''Warrington'' departed Norfolk on the 26th, transited the [[Panama Canal]] on 3 July and arrived in her new home port, [[San Diego, California|San Diego]], soon thereafter. Assigned to the Battle Force, United States Fleet, the destroyer conducted operations along the [[California]] coast for the next nine months. At the beginning of April 1940, she departed San Diego with the ships of Battle Force to participate in [[Fleet Problem XXI]], conducted in [[Hawaii]]an waters. Though nominally retaining San Diego as her home port, ''Warrington'' was based at [[Pearl Harbor]] for most of her remaining peacetime service. From April 1940-April 1941, she returned to the West Coast only twice: once in June 1940 for repairs after the conclusion of the Fleet exercise and again in late November and early December of that year.
After 12 months of training out of Pearl Harbor, frequently with submarines engaged in torpedo practice, ''Warrington'' departed Hawaii on 18 April 1941 to augment the forces engaged in the so-called "[[Neutrality Patrol]]". After passing back through the Panama Canal on 7 May, she continued on to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. There, she became part of a patrol force composed of {{USS|Cincinnati|CL-6|2}}, {{USS|Memphis|CL-13|2}}, and {{USS|Davis|DD-395|2}}. Her area of operations encompassed the eastern [[Caribbean]] and the western [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] from the West Indies south to about [[12th parallel south|12
==World War II==
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