Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Kunyange zvazvo "Kaiserin Elisabeth" akapisa marasha akawanda, muna 1914 akanga achiri kukwanisa kufamba nokukurumidza zvikuru uye akanga ari kuChina. Pakatanga Hondo Yenyika Yokutanga, "Kaiserin Elisabeth" akatora rutivi mukudzivirira koloni yeGermany yeTsingtao, iyo yakanga iri
vakakombwa nemaJapan musi wa25 Nyamavhuvhu 1914; Japan yakanga yazivisa hondo kuGermany musi wa23 Nyamavhuvhu uye kuvapo kwa"Kaiserin Elisabeth" kwakatungamira kuJapan kuzivisa hondo kuAustria-Hungary musi wa25 Nyamavhuvhu. PaTsingtao na"Kaiserin Elisabeth" pakanga pane ngarava dzehondo dzakareruka dzeGermany Imperial Navy, zvikepe zvehondo, uye, uye chikepe che torpedo. (German Asiatic Squadron, yaiwanzova yakavakirwa paTsingtau, yakanga yaita nhambo yokudzokera kumusha ichipfuura Pacific.) Vashandi vomungarava vakakamurwa kuva mapoka maviri; rimwe boka rakaramba richibata ngarava, nepo rimwe racho rakatsigira varwi veGermany.