In 1912 she was bought by Carl Christian Krabbenhöft, renamed Max, and transferred to the Hamburg-Chile route.

For the remainder of the war the ship sailed in British service, as Flores.

In the early 1960s Sagres (II) was retired from school ship service when the Portuguese Navy purchased, from Brazil, the school ship Guanabara (originally launched in Germany in 1937 as Albert Leo Schlageter).

At the same time Sagres (II) was renamed Santo André and reclassified as depot ship.

The NRP Santo André remained moored at the Lisbon Naval Base, being decommissioned in 1975.