Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - "Zhenyuan" an kama shi a matsayin kyautar yaƙi, an gyara shi, kuma an ba shi izini a cikin Rundunar Sojan Ruwa ta Japan a matsayin Chin Yen. Ta sha ziyartar Japan a ƙarshen 1890s da farkon 1900s don bikin nasarar Japan a kan China. Ya tsufa a lokacin yakin Russo-Japan, duk da haka ya ga aikin a yakin Yellow Sea a watan Agustan 1904 da kuma yakin Tsushima a watan Mayu 1905. Ta kuma goyi bayan mamayewar Sakhalin
a cikin Yuli 1905. Bayan yakin, "Chin Yen" ya zama jirgin horo, yana aiki a wannan rawar har zuwa 1911, bayan haka aka sayar da shi zuwa jirgin ruwa a 1912.