After the United States Congress proposed the Twenty-first Amendment to end prohibition in February 1933, plans were made for "Porter" to be returned to the Navy. On 27 May 1933, "Porter" arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and was decommissioned nine days later, on 5 June. "Porter" was transferred back to the Navy on 30 June. Later in 1933 the ship was renamed "DD-59" in order to free the name "Porter" for a new destroyer of the same name. "DD-59" remained in noncommissioned status until struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 July 1934. She was sold for scrap on 22 August in accordance with the London Naval Treaty.