 She was instead sold to a shipowner in Rotterdam, renamed "Heinrich Heister", and laid up there.In late August 1870, shortly after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, "Korvettenkapitän" ("KK"—Corvette captain) Franz von Waldersee was sent to secure fast steamships built abroad.German shipyards would not be able to complete vessels in time for use during the war, so vessels from neutral countries would have to be acquired.