Ka cika wannan magana: An canja "New York" zuwa rundunar jiragen ruwa na Asiya a shekara ta 1901, ta hanyar Gibraltar, Port Said, da Singapore zuwa Cavite, inda ta zama babban jirgin ruwa na rundunar jiragen ruwa na Asiya. Ta tashi zuwa Yokohama a watan Yuli don buɗe abin tunawa ga Perry Expedition. A watan Oktoba, "New York" ya ziyarci Samar da sauran tsibirin Philippine a matsayin wani ɓangare na
yaƙi da 'yan tawaye. A ranar 13 ga Maris, 1902, ta tashi zuwa Hong Kong da sauran tashar jiragen ruwa na kasar Sin. A watan Satumba, ta ziyarci Vladivostok, Rasha, sannan ta tsaya a Koriya kafin ta koma San Francisco a watan Nuwamba. A 1903, "New York" ya koma Pacific Squadron kuma ya yi tafiya tare da shi zuwa Ampala, Honduras a watan Fabrairun don kare bukatun Amurka a lokacin tashin hankali a can. Da yake tafiya ta hanyar Magdalena Bay, Mexico, jirgin ya koma San Francisco, don karɓar bakuncin Shugaba Theodore Roosevelt. A shekara ta 1904, "New York" ya shiga jirgin ruwa na jirgin ruwa a Panama da Peru, sa'an nan kuma ya ba da rahoto ga Puget Sound a watan Yuni inda ta zama babban jirgin ruwa na Pacific Squadron. A watan Satumba, ta aiwatar da umarnin tsaka tsaki na Shugaban kasa a lokacin Yaƙin Rasha da Japan. "New York" ya kasance a Valparaíso, Chile daga ranar 21 ga Disamba, 1904 zuwa 4 ga Janairu, 1905, sa'an nan kuma ya tashi zuwa Boston kuma an dakatar da shi a ranar 31 ga Maris don sabuntawa.