 "Loreley" was the first Prussian warship to do so.She returned to the Ottoman capital, Constantinople, in mid-June 1861 to bring the Prussian ambassador to visit the new Sultan Abdülaziz.The ship's executive officer, "LzS" Otto Livonius, took command of the ship when Kuhn was recalled to Prussia to take command of the gunboat flotilla; "Loreley" then cruised to Mount Athos.