| 03.04.1900: | Commissioned. | 
| -31.05.1900: | Trials and training. | 
| 17.06.1900: | Send to South-East Asia. | 
| 21-23.07.1900: | On its voyage to Asia, the Tiger
 runs aground at the Island of Perim while resupplying the ships with coal. | 
| 30.08-12.09.1900: | Repairs in Hong Kong. | 
| 22.10.1900: | Arrived in Tsingtau. | 
| -Dec 1901: | Operations off the chinese coast. | 
| Dec 1901: | Visit to Nagasaki. | 
| 13-19.01.1902: | Visit to Bangkok. | 
| 1902 - 1905: | Operations off the chinese coast. | 
| 19.12.1905-30.01.1906: | Operations in Shanghai to protect  European civilians. | 
| 12.01.1907 - Mar 1907: | Operations in Indonesian waters. | 
| 15.03-15.05.1907: | Repairs in Shanghai. | 
| -1914: | Various voyages in South-East Asia. | 
| 01.08.1914: | The guns of the Tiger
 are used to equip the auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich
 , the gunboat is decommissioned. | 
| 29.10.1914: | The ship is scuttled in Tsingtau. |