 The ship's owner renamed the ship Heinrich Heister, though he made no use of her.In 1870, following the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, the North German Navy was in search of vessels to augment its fleet and acquired "Heinrich Heister", transferred her to Emden, briefly renaming her Emden" to obscure the ship's movements, before being converted into an armed aviso with her intended name, "Falke".Her wartime service was cut short by an accidental ramming by the ironclad warship , sending "Falke" into dock for repairs.