Kammala wannan jumla: Tare da tashin hankali a kan tashin hankali tsakanin Prussia da Denmark a ƙarshen shekara, "Grille" an sanya shi a matsayin babban jirgin ruwa na Yarima Adalbert, kwamandan rundunar jiragen ruwa na Prussian. Bayan barkewar yaki a watan Fabrairun 1864, an kunna shi don wannan dalili a ranar 10 ga Maris, lokacin da aka sanya bindigogi masu nauyin fam 12. "Grille" ya kasance a tashar jiragen ruwa lokacin da Eduard von Jachmann ya ɗauki jiragen ruwa da yawa zuwa teku don kai hari kan toshewar Danish, wanda ya haifar da
Yaƙin Jasmund a watan Maris. Adalbert ya hau jirgin a ranar 29 ga Maris a Stralsund, kuma a ranar 6 ga Afrilu, ya lura da atisayen horo tare da jiragen ruwa a cikin Greifswald Bay. "Grille" ya tashi a ranar 14 ga Afrilu tare da Adalbert a cikin jirgin don share Bay of Pomerania wanda ya haifar da gamuwa da jirgin ruwa na Danish da kuma jirgin ruwa na tururi. "Grille" ya bude wuta daga nesa, wanda ya haifar da yakin basasa na sa'o'i biyu da rabi wanda "Grille" ya fi sauƙi fiye da jiragen ruwa na Danish. Ta gudu zuwa Swinemünde, inda jiragen ruwa na 1st Flotilla da Jachmann's squadron suka rufe ta. Yayin da dare ya yi, kwamandan Danish, Admiral Edvard van Dockum, ya yanke shawarar dakatar da bin.