 In 1905, "Freya" went into drydock at the Imperial Dockyard in Wilhelmshaven for modernization.During the refit she was re-boilered; she had been built originally with three stacks, and during the modernization they were trunked into two funnels.The refit was finished in 1907, after which "Freya" was used as a training ship for naval cadets.