On the return trip, at 01:50 hr on 12 September, the High Seas Fleet ran into a newly laid British minefield, with the torpedo boat G196 striking a mine which badly damaged the ship's stern, killing seven and wounding eight of G196's crew.

G195 and sister ship G192 went alongside the stricken torpedo boat, passing steel lines under G196 while the dead and wounded were transferred to G195.

G196 was stabilised by the efforts of the chief engineers of the three torpedo boats, with G195 and G192 remaining alongside G196 while V189 towed the ship back to Wilhelmshaven.

[14][15] On 25 March 1916, the British seaplane carrier Vindex, escorted by the Harwich force, launched an air attack against a Zeppelin base believed to be at Hoyer on the coast of Schleswig.

Forces of the High Seas Fleet were ordered to sea in response to the attack, and on the evening of 25 March, 18 German torpedo boats of the 1st and 6th Torpedo Boat Flotillas, including G195 were deployed in a wide front with orders to search for Medusa to the North West of Horns Rev.

The search was abandoned owing to the heavy seas, which were bad enough that the torpedo boats could not keep and effective lookout or use their armament.

[16][17] G195, still part of the 1st Torpedo Boat Flotilla, was part of the High Seas Fleet when it sailed to cover the Lowestoft Raid on 24–25 April 1916,[18] and when the High Seas Fleet sailed to cover a sortie of the battlecruisers of the 1st Scouting Group in the inconclusive Action of 19 August 1916.