began the voyage back to Germany, arriving in Kiel on 28 April, where she was laid up for an overhaul at the there. 1882–1914 Cyclop was recommissioned after the completion of the overhaul on 1 April 1882. She was initially assigned to fishery protection duties in the North Sea. While in Wilhelmshaven, she received orders on 7 August for a cruise to the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where she would join Germany's response to the ʻUrabi revolt in Egypt, which also included the screw corvettes and , the aviso , and the gunboats and . In June 1882, the revolutionaries, led by Ahmed ‘Urabi and angered by foreign influence in the country, murdered fifty Europeans, prompting the British Royal Navy to bombard Alexandria and then land forces to pursue the rebels. In the wake of the conflict, the German government determined that warships should be sent to protect Germans in the country. Cyclop arrived in Port Said, Egypt, on 2 October and she remained in the region, based in Alexandria, into January 1883. While in Egypt, Cyclop embarked Field Marshall Prince Friedrich Karl from Suez to El Tor, Egypt, where he made a visit to the interior. Cyclop provided three armed sailors as a bodyguard. Friedrich Karl returned to the ship at Suez, and on 12 February, she took him to Jaffa. In April, she cruised off the coast of Marmarica, where she conducted shooting practice. A scholar, Professor Schweinfurth, was aboard the ship at that time to conduct studies of ports in the region. On 1 May, the admiralty ordered Cyclop to return to Germany as the situation in Egypt had calmed, and she arrived back in Wilhelmshaven on 21 July. She returned to fishery protection duties on 19 August, which lasted through most of 1884. Increased competition between fishing vessels in the North Sea led to attacks on German boats by British sailors, prompting the German government to intervene diplomatically. Tensions had reduced by August 1884, allowing Cyclop to take part in the annual fleet maneuvers later that month and into September. On 30 September, the ship was decommissioned in Wilhelmshaven. The admiralty had intended for Cyclop to remain in service for fishery protection duties in 1885, but by that time, small warships were needed to enforce the German colony in Kamerun, which had recently been seized. Before she could depart, Cyclop was taken into the shipyard to have