On 18 October 1895 it ordered one ship from Charles Connell and Company of Scotstoun, on the River Clyde in Glasgow.

She was built as yard number 226, launched on 18 April 1896 as Augsburg, and completed on 27 June that year for 790,000 marks.

[2] DADG operated between Hamburg and Australia, and also served the Dutch East Indies and South Africa.

About half of the cargo of coir, copra, and barrels of coconut oil in that hold was damaged by either the fire, or the water used to put it out.

[1] Later in 1907 Augsburg sailed on a United Tyser Line service from New York to Sydney via the Cape of Good Hope.

At her stern her auxiliary steering wheel was smashed; an 11-foot (3-metre) length of her railing was carried away on her starboard side; and the iron stanchions of the awning on her poop were broken or bent.

On the morning of 11 October she reached Fremantle, Western Australia to discharge part of her cargo, before continuing to Sydney.

[7][8] On 13 April the Marconi Company wireless station on Cape Race signalled the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) passenger ship Ypiranga, asking her to change course to search for Augsburg.

[10][11] A book of the history of DADG, published in 1933, claims that Magdeburg was so delayed by adverse weather that she had to make an unscheduled call for bunkers at São Vicente, Cape Verde.