In Gdansk, Poland the ship was checked and on 24 November 1859 it was found that the shaft and cylinder were broken.

de Haan was on a voyage from Amsterdam, North Holland to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France,[4] and Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia.

During the night of 15 January 1861 the ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Cape Spartel, Morocco with the loss of six of her 22 crew.

On 25 September 1867 the ship arrived from Amsterdam at the harbor of Frederikshavn, Denmark with a broken spindle and cylinder.

On 22 September 1875 while on voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to the Netherlands it broke the machine at Hveen and brought in by a tugboat at Copenhagen where it was repaired.

[3] On 1 December 1876, while en route from Pernau to Schiedam, the Netherlands, the ship with a cargo of barley stranded near Terschelling partly due to fog.

Thirteen crew members and passengers were brought ashore on Terschelling by a fishing vessel.