 She went to the Mediterranean with the ironclad training squadron in 1876 in response to the murder of a German diplomat in Salonika.She remained in the region after the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, staying in Constantinople with "Loreley".After returning to Germany, she served as a tender to the "Marinestation der Nordsee" from 1881 to 1884, thereafter seeing service as a fisheries protection vessel and survey ship.