Operational History
Aki was commissioned on 1911-03-11. During World War I, from August 1914, Aki was assigned to patrol the sea lanes south of Japan in the South China Sea and the Yellow Sea, but without a notable battle record. Indeed the only notable event in her wartime career was running aground on 1914-11-16 on a sandbank in Tokyo Bay.
As a result of the Washington Naval Agreement, Aki was decommissioned on 1923-09-20. It was expended as a naval artillery target, and sunk by Nagato and Mutsu off of Nojimasaki, southern Bōsō Peninsula, Chiba on 1924-09-27, in a ceremony witnessed by Crown Prince Hirohito and the heads of all the departments in the Japanese military. However, some of its larger guns were salvaged, and re-used in coastal artillery batteries around Tokyo Bay, including those at Misaki, Kanagawa, Miura Peninsula, and at Jogashima.
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