From 1903 to 1906 she was part of the Asiatic Fleet and voyaged to various Asia-Pacific / Far East ports. In 1908, she returned stateside and joined the "Great White Fleet", the round-the-world U.S. naval force arranged to showcase American naval power to the world. The fleet then returned to the American East Coast, reaching Hampton Roads, in February of 1909. Repairs, training and maintenance followed her in the next period of her career. During 1910, she was place in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet and then mothballed before the end of 1913. She joined the United States Naval Academy in early-1915 and voyaged across the Pacific, transiting the two oceans through the Panama Canal (which had just opened for business).
Of note here is the arrival of the British warship HMS Dreadnought (detailed elsewhere on this site) in 1906 which rewrote the standard for battleship design for its time. So impactful was this all-big-gunned, steam-powered warship that all previous designs were now categorized as "pre-Dreadnought". USS Wisconsin became just that, a pre-Dreadnought warship, from 1906 on.
World War 1 (1914-1918) broke out in Europe during the summer of 1914 but America remained neutral in the conflict up until April 1917. To this point, USS Wisconsin was retained for training purposes and was recommissioned for service on April 23rd of that year - forming part of the Coast Battleship Patrol Squadron. She trained personnel and participated in various exercises before being put into dry dock from October to December.
By early 1918, she was in Chesapeake waters and entered a period of repair from Mary to June. She patrolled for German U-boats along the American East Coast en route to Annapolis but came up empty in her search. Additional training endeavors followed, even as the war drew to a close with the Armistice of November 15th, 1918, into the end of the year.
In the later stages of her career, she trained additional USN personnel in Cuba as part of the Atlantic Fleet into 1919. Her services no longer needed, she was decommissioned for good on May 15th, 1920 and designated "BB-9" on July 17th of that year. Stripped of her military value, the warship was sold off on January 26th, 1922 for scrapping, bringing about an end to a storied sailing career.
The "Wisconsin" name was resurrected once more, this time for USS Wisconsin (BB-64) (detailed elsewhere on this site), and this mighty warship served with distinction throughout World War 2 (1939-1945), not decommissioned until 1991 and ultimately preserved as a floating museum ship.
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