Scindia then headed east for the California coast and, after reaching San Francisco Bay early in the spring of 1899, was surveyed at the Mare Island Navy Yard and decommissioned there on 27 May for repairs to her boilers and machinery.
Scindia moved eastward along the California coastline and, upon reaching San Francisco Bay by early spring of 1899, was examined at the Mare Island Navy Yard. The ship was then decommissioned on May 27 for repairs to its boilers and machinery.