On 12 January 1916, Admiral Reinhard Scheer replaced von Pohl as the fleet commander. "Kaiser" was present during the fleet advance on 5–7 March, though this too ended without action. While in port in Kiel, the old pre-dreadnought accidentally collided with "Kaiser", though neither ship was seriously damaged. Scheer continued the series of fleet operations practiced by his predecessors; the fleet conducted sweeps of the North Sea on 26 March, 2–3 April, and 21–22 April. The battlecruisers conducted another raid on the English coast on 24–25 April, during which "Kaiser" and the rest of the fleet provided distant support. Scheer planned another raid for mid-May, but the battlecruiser had struck a mine during the previous raid and the repair work forced the operation to be pushed back until the end of the month.