 After unloading at Manila, she transited the Strait of Malacca, crossed the Indian Ocean, and continued on via the Suez Canal and the Strait of Gibraltar to Cardiff, Wales, where she filled her bunkers with coal before crossing the Atlantic to Norfolk, Virginia, where she arrived on 1 March 1901.During her first circumnavigation of Earth, the steamer was renamed "Ajax" on 1 January 1901.She was decommissioned on 16 March.