sentences:  Operating primarily in the southern islands, she supervised the post-Spanish–American War evacuation of the Spanish garrison at Zamboanga in May 1899.With a cruise to Chinese ports in 1900, "Castine" remained in East Asian waters until June 1901, when she cleared for the Suez Canal and the United States East Coast.She was decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 8 October 1901.