 On one such voyage, carrying coal and empty barrels from Rotterdam, she struck a reef at the entrance to Admiralty Bay, South Shetland Islands on 26 December 1908.Some sources considered her a total loss as a wreck.Capt Adolfus Andresen, Norwegian owner of the Sociedad Ballenera de Magellanes of Punta Arenas, Chile which used Deception Island as a whale factory ship base, salved the "Telefon", putting her aground at Port Foster, Deception Island, where she was eventually refloated and returned to service with the whaling fleet.