After spending her first year in shakedown and training cruises along the east coast and Caribbean, the Blue sailed for the Pacific Ocean in August 1838 to become the flagship of Destroyer Division 7, Battle Force. She exercised with the Battle Fleet in west coast waters until April 1940 when she accompanied her division to Pearl Harbor.
Except for an overhaul at Puget Sound Navy Yard (February-March 1941) and exercises out of San Diego during April of that year, she remained based out of Pearl Harbor serving as the flagship of Destroyer Division Seven of Destroyer Squadron Four.
PEARL HARBOR
The Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, caught the USS Blue in port, but she safely made her way out tio sea with only four ensigns on board. She served with the offshore patrol in the approaches to Pearl Harbor during December 1941-January 1942.
--GreGen
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