Complex sentence: She spent most of her career in the China Station, though when war broke out in 1914 she bombarded Yap, prior to deploying to Valparaíso to search for the armed merchant raider "SMS Prinz Eitel Friedrich".
Split into simpler sentences: She spent most of her career in the China Station. When war broke out in 1914 she bombarded Yap, prior to deploying to Valparaíso to search for the armed merchant raider "SMS Prinz Eitel Friedrich".