USS Israel, a 1060-ton (standard displacement) Little class destroyer built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned mid-September 1918. She briefly performed escort duty along the Atlantic Coast, then accompanied a convoy to Gibraltar, where she arrived five days before the 11 November Armistice brought the fighting to an end. Israel operated in the Mediterranean Sea until July 1919, when she returned to the United States. In 1920 the destroyer was converted to a light minelayer, receiving the designation DM-3 in July 1920, though apparently continuing to wear her destroyer number, "98". During 1921 and the first months of 1922 Israel was active off the East Coast and in the Caribbean area. Decommissioned in July 1922, she was laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, for nearly a decade and a half. USS Israel was stricken from the list of Navy ships in January 1937 and sold in April 1939.
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