Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ko da yake "Kaiserin Elisabeth" ya ƙone kwal mai yawa, a shekara ta 1914 har yanzu yana iya yin tururi a cikin sauri kuma an sanya shi a kasar Sin. Bayan barkewar Yaƙin Duniya na Farko, "Kaiserin Elisabeth" ya shiga cikin tsaron mulkin mallaka na Tsingtao, wanda aka kewaye shi
da Jafananci a ranar 25 ga Agusta 1914; Japan ta ayyana yaƙi da Jamus a ranar 23 ga Agusta kuma kasancewar "Kaiserin Elisabeth" ya sa Japan ta ayyana yaƙi da Austria-Hungary a ranar 25 ga Agusta. A Tsingtao tare da "Kaiserin Elisabeth" sun kasance jirgin ruwa mai haske na Imperial German Navy, gunboats, da kuma jirgin ruwa na torpedo. (Jamusanci Asiatic Squadron, kullum tushen a Tsingtau, ya sanya wani dash ga gida a fadin Pacific.) An rarraba ma'aikatan jirgin zuwa rukuni biyu; daya ya ci gaba da aikin jirgin, yayin da ɗayan ya ƙarfafa sojojin Jamus.