 By the time work on the vessel was completed, however, the war was over, leaving the shipyard without a buyer.A private shipowner in the Netherlands purchased the vessel, renamed it "Heinrich Heister", and left it idle in Rotterdam for the next five years.She was purchased by what was now the North German Federal Navy in August 1870, shortly after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, but she was accidentally rammed by the turret ship shortly after entering service as "Falke", causing serious damage that ended her wartime career.