The small steamer was not well suited for the job and in 1826 it was sent to Altona in Hamburg, where it got the name Dandy back and sailed between towns on the Elbe river.

Dandy arrived in that city on 14 September 1825 and she was entered in the Danish shipping registry as the Jylland (alternatively spelled as Jydland and Jülland).

His plan was to convert it into a steamship, and between July 1824 and February 1825 the schooner was at Jacob Holm's wharf for machinery installation, but it was never carried out - technical and economical challenges may have arisen, but the available sources are silent about this.

On arrival at Helsingør she lacked coal, so Louis Oppert, who had gone along for the trip, went ashore to procure more fuel.

The passengers had to spend a night on the remote Sjællands Odde and were in a rather worn out state when they eventually reached Aarhus.

The tragicomic turn of events was referred in the Copenhagen weekly Politivennen on 5 August 1826, and that spelled the end of the route.