After completing her repairs, "Seeadler" was ordered to German South-West Africa on 28 April to assist the "Schutztruppe" in suppressing a local rebellion. The ship was tasked with interrupting the shipment of weapons from British arms dealers to the rebels. "Seeadler" thereafter proceeded to Swakopmund on 5 May; she was joined there by the gunboat . The two ships sent forces ashore to defend the city. At the end of the month, "Seeadler" returned to East Africa. On 2 October, she steamed to Zanzibar to take the deposed Sultan Khalid bin Barghash to Dar es Salaam following the brief Anglo-Zanzibar War. On 20 December, "Seeadler" was again called to Lourenço Marques after the German consul Graf von Pfeil was attacked by Portuguese colonial police. "Condor" joined her there on 2 January 1897 to strengthen the show of force. "Seeadler" thereafter proceeded to Cape Town for her yearly overhaul.