Following recommissioning, "Yankee" served along the east coast between Chesapeake Bay and the Maine coast training landsmen in the ways of the sea. Early in December 1903, she headed south for winter maneuvers and gunnery drills with the North Atlantic Fleet in the gulf and the Caribbean around Hispaniola. "Yankee" served at Santo Domingo to help restore order and to straighten out the country's financial muddle. On 1 February, the ship was fired upon by rebel troops. In response, the United States sent the protected cruisers USS "Columbia" and USS "Newark". In the Santo Domingo Affair, the two ships bombarded the city and sent a landing party ashore on 11 February.