She returned to Australia in 1919, and was used primarily to train naval reservists.
In that role the ship was used as training platform for naval reservists.
For the next three years, she acted as training ship for naval reservists in the Philadelphia area.
An additional 415 naval reservists were mobilized today, bringing the total to 52,907.
Many will be military police officers, and about 1,000 are naval reservists.
There she served as a drill platform for naval reservists.
As of the end of 1986, she was training naval reservists from her base at Newport.
The home port will also allow naval reservists to train on locally based warships.
Wisconsin spent nearly all of 1947 as a training ship, taking naval reservists on two-week cruises throughout the year.
Chippawa became the home for nearly 200 naval reservists from units across Canada.