Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An ba da umarnin zuwa Bahar Rum a 1908, "Scorpion" ya tashi daga Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a ranar 22 ga Oktoba, 1908. A ranar 4 ga Disamba, 1908, ta isa Constantinople a Daular Ottoman don ɗaukar nauyin aiki a matsayin jirgin ruwa, amma an umurce ta da ta je Messina, Italiya don taimakawa wajen taimakawa wadanda suka tsira daga girgizar kasa
a can. Ta goyi bayan kokarin Kula da Lafiya na Duniya daga 3 zuwa 8 ga Janairu 1909, sannan ta koma Daular Ottoman. Daga 10 ga Fabrairu zuwa 15 ga Yuli, ta kasance a Naples, Italiya, don gyarawa. Ta koma Constantinople a ranar 20 ga watan Yuli kuma ta dauki nauyin aikin jirgin ruwa, wanda ya hada da aiki ga Ofishin Jakadancin Amurka. Daga 27 ga Nuwamba 1910 zuwa 28 ga Janairu 1912, ta kasance a Trieste a Austria-Hungary don gyare-gyare mai yawa, kuma a watan Fabrairun 1912 ta koma Constantinople. A watan Agusta 1912, ta taimaka wa wadanda ke fama da girgizar kasa a Daular Ottoman kuma, a watan Oktoba 1912, lokacin da Yakin Balkan na farko ya barke, ta fara aiki don taimakawa Amurkawa da aka kama a yankunan da ake jayayya.