The PRDG was quick to point out defects, and so Agrippina returned to Rotterdam in order to be made more suitable for the Rhine.

[8] When PRDG observed that Agrippina had more draft than expected, the company refused to accept her, and a commission of experts was formed to investigate.

[7] In late August she was still in the harbor, because PRDG did not dare to use her in the service between Cologne and Mainz after a second test had led to negative results.

In the end a deal was made whereby PRDG would trade in Agrippina for NSM's De Rijn and pay the high price of 165,000 guilders.

Meanwhile, Roentgen undoubtedly knew of the ban on the use of high-pressure steam engines on passenger ships, which the Dutch government would issue in 1829.

In January 1829, or even earlier, Roentgen got the idea to place the high-pressure cylinders of Agrippina in Hercules.

[16] On 17 August 1829 Hercules left Rotterdam for Düsseldorf towing Agrippina, which had been turned into a dumb barge with luxury passenger accommodation.

[17] On 20 August the combination reached Düsseldorf where grand duchess Helen of Russia disembarked.

After failing as a dumb barge, Agrippina probably spent most of her time laying around at Fijenoord shipyard.

On 27 August 1836 Agrippina, commanded by Captain Cranenbroek left Düsseldorf with the third Garde Landwehr battalion on board.

[28] In July 1837 Agrippina transported the King of Württemberg and the princesses Maria and Sophia, as well as a large escort from Cologne to The Hague.

On 6 July the company arrived in Nijmegen, where it spent the night in the Logement de Plaats Roijaal.

It even had a small library, and when a young lady asked Von Strombeck what he did, he 'could satisfy his author's vanity' by showing her his entry in the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie.

After many stops, Agrippina reached Nijmegen in the evening, where Von Strombeck slept in the Hotel des Pays Bas.

He would continue his voyage on the Concordia[32] From 13 to 16 August 1837 the city of Mainz organized a huge celebration to commemorate the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg.

On board she had a numerous military band, the direction of the games, and a number of guns operated by the Austrian artillery.

[33] The opening event consisted of 12 boats rowing the competitors, who stood at the sterns, dressed as Neapolitan fisherman.

The first flag was to be gained by climbing a rope dangling from the yard of the main mast of Agrippina.

Some English passengers had hired the best place, the pavilion, and parked their three coaches on the front deck.

Fockens main interest was to visit the University of Bonn, and to meet the staff of the faculty of Theology.

Between Sankt Goar and Kaub the boat's staff often played a trumpet and fired cannon to hear the echo of the mountains.

[40] In 1841 the steamboat season began early, when NSM's Agrippina and Ludwig arrived in Nijmegen on 27 January.

Because of her speed, Agrippina then turned too quickly and too short, making the pavilion, which was on the stern, hit the pier.

[46] Whatever the truth of the accident, after some more trips, Agrippina left Rotterdam under Captain de Ruyter on 19 October.

Attempts were made to safe the 120 tons of cargo, by bringing it on deck and transloading it on barges, but most of it was ruined.

[47] The later explanation for the accident was that the boat had hit a submerged beam, which had bent inwards an iron part of the machine.

[48] Some newspapers had details about there being 4 feet of water in the hold before Agrippina was beached, and that the cargo consisted mainly of highly perishable sugar and saltpeter.

[56] In the early morning of 21 October 1843 a coal barge that descended the Rhine hit Agrippina, which was lying before the NSM office at De Boompjes.

[57] Agrippina probably suffered little, because on 16 November she arrived in Mannheim towing the iron Rhein II.

When NSM was in financial trouble and diminished shipping activities, it rented out Agrippina and Concordia to Stinnes in 1844.