She took an active role in mapping the northern Pacific Ocean and nearby seas as well as periodically being stationed in Chinese and Korean ports and protecting seal rookeries, principally from American poachers.

[1] Sivuch′s presence at Niuzhuang and on the Liao River was a matter of concern to the Imperial Japanese Navy during the early months of the war.

[2] Imperial Japanese Army cavalry occupied Niuzhuang on 25 July 1904, and Sivuch withdrew up the Liao River accompanied by a flotilla of four armed steam launches.

[3] On 1 August 1904, an Imperial Japanese Navy force consisting of the gunboats Atago, Tsukushi, and Uji and a division of torpedo boats arrived at the mouth of the Liao River with orders to assist the Japanese Second Army in guarding the river and to destroy Sivuch and her accompanying launches if possible.

[4] With Sivuch trapped in the upper reaches of the river by superior Japanese forces, her crew scuttled her by blowing her up on 2 August 1904.