1903 DOAL took delivery of three twin-screw cargo liners for its Reichspostdampfer (RPD, or "State Mail Steamship") service, which circumnavigated Africa
second class, and 40 in third class. She made one round trip on the Reichspostdampfer route between Bremen and Sydney, New South Wales via the Suez Canal
Insurance Act and took over the supervision of the Kiel Canal and the Reichspostdampfer line (mail service by steamboat). At the request of Frederick Augustus