Following overhaul by the Norfolk Navy Yard, "Tracy" returned briefly to Nicaraguan waters in March 1927, and then proceeded north. Steaming from Newport, Rhode Island on 1 June with DesDiv 38, she visited Queenstown, Northern Ireland before touching at ports in Scotland, England, Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, Algeria, Tunisia, and Italy. Departing Gibraltar on 28 January 1928, she operated in the Atlantic for one month before orders transferred DesDiv 38 to the Battle Fleet. Based at San Diego from 1 April 1928 until the spring of 1929, "Tracy" served on occasion as plane guard destroyer with the aircraft carriers and before preparing at Mare Island Navy Yard, in June and July 1929, for duty in the Far East.