 "Loreley" was sent first to Greece in October to show the flag in Piraeus, leaving "Ida" in Italian waters.From there, she directed to visit the Ottoman Empire and enter the Black Sea.Under the terms of the Treaty of Paris that had ended the Crimean War in 1856, Prussia and the other European Great Powers (excluding the Russian Empire) were permitted to station warships in the mouth of the Danube at Sulina.