As a prestigious luxury ship, Prinzessin Victoria Luise also took part in events honoring Kaiser Wilhelm II, his brother Prince Henry of Prussia, and Cipriano Castro, President of Venezuela.

He swiftly took his own life, leaving his officers to manage the safe rescue of the ship's passengers and crew.

In January 1891 Ballin, despite criticism from his HAPAG fellow directors and from other steamship companies, sent Augusta Victoria on a 58-day "pleasure voyage" from Cuxhaven, Germany to the Mediterranean and Near East.

[4] On 26 January she left New York on her first tour, which was to Port-au-Prince; Santo Domingo; San Juan; St Thomas, in what were then the Danish West Indies; Saint-Pierre; Port of Spain; La Guaira: Puerto Cabello; Curaçao; Kingston; Santiago de Cuba; Cienfuegos; and Havana.

[4] On 18 June she attended a Norddeutscher Regatta Verein regatta on the Elbe at Cuxhaven, where she hosted a dinner at which Wilhelm II gave a speech in which he praised Ballin as "a bold adventurer to make peaceful conquests, whose fruits our grandchildren will reap".

The Kaiser also presented a portrait of himself to Ballin, bearing the dedication "to the farseeing and tireless pathbreaker for our German commerce and export".

On 11 March, as he left Hoboken aboard Deutschland to return home, the Hudson County Choristers sang to him from the deck of Prinzessin Victoria Luise.

HAPAG arranged for Prinzessin Victoria Luise to leave New York on 10 June to take passengers to England for the coronation, calling at Le Havre and Hamburg as well as London.

In February and March 1903 Prinzessin Victoria Luise made a cruise that visited Bermuda as well as the Caribbean.

[12] In September 1903 HAPAG announced that she would make a four-and-a-half month cruise almost the whole way around the World, including a fortnight in Japan.

[14] In January 1904, in port in La Guaira, Prinzessin Victoria Luise hosted a reception at which HAPAG company officials entertained President Castro of Venezuela.

She would start from Hamburg on 25 September, and passengers from the USA could join her via the company's scheduled transatlantic services from New York.

Passengers were offered the option to leave the ship at Bombay, make an 18-day overland tour of India, and rejoin her at Calcutta.

[1] A recent volcanic eruption had changed the topography of the seabed, so that in places, actual depths differed from what was marked on the ship's nautical charts.

[citation needed] Captain Brunswig sent a boat ashore to report the accident, and then retired to his cabin and shot himself.

[19] The German cruiser SMS Bremen and French training ship Duguay-Trouin came to assist Prinzessin Victoria Luise.

[22] However, within days the sea, aided by a storm, had turned the ship broadside to the shore, she was listing sharply to port, and the water inside her hull was 16 feet (5 m) deep on that side.

[20] HAPAG transferred the liner Kronprinzessin Cecilie to replace Prinzessin Victoria Luise on its Hoboken – Jamaica route.

In a shipwreck, the Master's duty is to remain in command, ensure the safety of his passengers and crew, and try to save his ship.

[24] On 24 May 1907 an admiralty court in Hamburg posthumously found Captain Brunswig to have been negligent, not only by mistaking one lighthouse for another, but also for maintaining full speed at the time.

[26] In 1910 Deutschland was refitted as a cruise ship and renamed Victoria Luise (without the "Prinzessin") to succeed her.