Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan shiga sabis a 1890, "Kaiser Franz Joseph I" ya yi aiki tare da rundunar jiragen ruwa a cikin ruwa na gida, gami da tafiya zuwa arewacin Turai tare da "Tiger" a 1890, yayin da "Kaiserin Elisabeth" ya yi zagaye na duniya a 1892<unk>1893 tare da Archduke Franz Ferdinand a ciki. Dukansu jiragen ruwa sun ziyarci Jamus don bude Kaiser Wilhelm Canal a 1895. "Kaiser Franz Joseph I" ya tafi Gabashin Asiya a shekara ta 1897 kafin ya dawo ya shiga cikin rundunar sojan kasa da kasa a Crete kuma an aika da "Kaiserin Elisabeth" zuwa kasar Sin don taimakawa wajen kawar da Boxer Rebellion a shekara ta 1899. Bayan tawayen, Austria-Hungary ta sami izini a Tianjin, wanda ya sa Navy ta ci gaba da kasancewa ɗaya daga cikin mambobi biyu na aji a cikin 1910s. "Kaiserin Elisabeth" yana can a farkon yakin duniya na farko kuma ta koma don shiga sojojin Jamus a Tsingtao; a lokacin da aka kewaye shi
, an cire shi don karfafa kariya na tashar jiragen ruwa da kuma ma'aikatanta suka tafi bakin teku don yin yaki a matsayin dakarun. Daga bisani jirgin ya rushe don kauce wa kamawa da sojojin Allied. "Kaiser Franz Joseph I", a halin yanzu, an yi amfani da shi azaman jirgin tsaro a Cattaro Bay har tsawon yakin. Bayan Cattaro Mutiny a farkon 1918, an rage jirgin zuwa jirgin ruwa. Ta nutse a Cattaro Bay a 1919 kafin a ba shi ga Allies, kuma a ƙarshe an rushe shi a 1967.