In 1852, after the dissolution of the Reichsflotte, the ship was bought by Prussia together with the wheeled frigate and put into service under its old name of Gefion. From 1870, she was berthed in Kiel as a accommodation ship. She was struck from the navy list on 5 April 1880, and decommissioned on 5 May that year. The hull was used as a coal hulk and was scrapped at the Kaiserliche Werft in Kiel in the summer of 1891.Nach anderen Informationen wurde das Schiff 1914 durch einen Torpedotreffer vor Kolberg (Pommern) versenkt (Slesvigland, Flensburg und Sønderborg, 7. Jahrgang, Nr. 3/1986, S. 78 (nur mit Anmeldung und Passwort) retrieved 20 October 2009). The figurehead of the Gefion is now in Eckernförde's town hall; a replica serves in the Kurpark as the fountain figure of the Gefion fountain, where the original figurehead was located until about 1980. The ship's anchor can also be seen in the Kurpark.
