 A total of 7,075 people were rescued by the Japanese from damaged and sinking ships.This included the rescue by the destroyers "Matsu" and "Sakaki" of nearly 3000 persons from the troopship which was hit by a German torpedo on 4 May 1917.No Japanese ships were lost during the deployment but on 11 June 1917 "Sakaki" was hit by a torpedo from Austro-Hungarian submarine U-27 off Crete; 59 Japanese sailors died.