 She remained in the Mediterranean for another year, which passed uneventfully, before returning to Prussia, being decommissioned at Dänholm in August 1862.The Second Schleswig War began in February 1864 and "Loreley" was recommissioned on 21 February and stationed in Swinemünde as the flagship of the gunboat flotilla there; her commander at this time was "LzS" Alexander von Monts.Now "Kapitän zur See" ("KzS"—Captain at Sea) Kuhn returned to the ship.