Japanese cruiser Niitaka

and "Niitaka" helped suppress a mutiny by Indian sepoys.

From mid-1915 to 1918, "Tsushima" and the "Niitaka" were permanently based at the Cape of Good Hope, assist the Royal Navy in patrolling the sea lanes in the Indian Ocean, linking Europe to the east.

From September – July 1920, the "Niitaka" assisted in the landings of Japanese forces in Petropavlovsk under the Siberian Intervention to help the White Russian forces against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.

On 1 September 1921, the "Niitaka" was re-designated as 2nd Class Coastal Defense Vessel, and was assigned to patrols of the coasts of southern China and the northern edges of the Dutch East Indies.

On 26 August 1922, the "Niitaka" ran aground and sank in a typhoon off the coast of Karafuto, with the loss of 284 members of her crew. There were only 15 survivors. It was formally written off the Navy list on 1 April 1924.

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