Kagoshima Bay
In April 1900, while participating in maneuvers in Kagoshima Bay, "Kasagi" collided in a fog bank with a commercial steamer, forcing the steamer to beach itself to avoid sinking. Damage to "Kasagi" did not prevent her from completing the maneuvers. The first overseas deployment of "Kasagi" was in 1900, to support Japanese naval landing forces which occupied the port city of Tianjin in northern China during the Boxer Rebellion, as part of the Japanese contribution to the Eight-Nation Alliance. From her crew, 52 sailors were dispatched on a landing operation.