 Launched on 3 October 1911 and completed on 27 July 1912 by the Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyards, "Yahagi" participated in various operations in World War I in the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean.The cruiser was later used during the Siberian Intervention and the opening stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War.The ship was stricken on 1 April 1940, its hulk serving as a barracks until 1943.