In 1928 she was sold to the Chilean Navy and sailed from Europe with a cargo of ammunition for the battleship Almirante Latorre, after arrival she was due to be broken up, but, like the Majestic, she was refitted as a supply vessel for the Punta Arenas region, where she gave service to the colonists in sparsely inhabited areas, especial Tortel and Navarino Island.

Pedro Espina Ritchie[1] but the crew joined the mutiny and brought the ship into the hands of the insurrection.

She was ordered to weigh anchor and sail to Lota in order to bring miners to support the rebellion, but there they were seized by Carabineros de Chile, then a cavalry troop of the army dedicated to police tasks.

In 1958 the Micalvi crew built a lighthouse on the islet Snipe to improve the navigation on the Beagle Channel.

The Argentine Navy shelled the Chilean beacon and disembarked an infantry company in the uninhabited islet.