Routine was interrupted by occasional special tasks, the most notable of which came in June 1927. "Goff" was part of the flotilla which steamed out from the East Coast to greet and escort and her special passenger, Charles Lindbergh, as he returned from his transatlantic flight to a hero's welcome in New York. "Goff" also in June 1930 carried the President-elect of Colombia from Newport, Rhode Island to West Point. She decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 13 January 1931.