 Afterwards, "Condorcet" joined her squadron in its tour of the Eastern Mediterranean in October–December 1913 and participated in the grand fleet exercise in the Mediterranean in May 1914.At the beginning of the war, the ship, together with her sister and the dreadnought , unsuccessfully searched for the German battlecruiser "Goeben" and the light cruiser "Breslau" in the Balearic Islands.On 9 August, "Condorcet" cruised the Strait of Sicily in an attempt to prevent the German ships from breaking out to the West.