 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - SMS Blitz yaive yePrussian Navy yakazotevera Imperial German Navy iyo yakatangwa muna 1862. Chikepe chiduku, chakashongedzerwa nezvombo zvitatu chete zvakareruka, Blitz yakashanda munguva dzose nhatu dzehondo dzekubatanidzwa kweGermany muma1860 uye kutanga kwema1870. Ngarava yacho yakanga iripo panguva yeHondo yeHelgolandmuna Chivabvu 1864 panguva yeHondo yechipiri yeSchleswig, asi yakanga ichinonoka kupindira muchikwata cheDenmark. Munguva yeAustro-Prussian Hondo ya1866, iye akavhiyiwa pamusoro Kingdom of Hanover muNorth Sea, asi haana kuona zvakawanda chiito. Muna August 1870, Blitz nedzimwe ngarava nhatu dzakareruka dzakarwisa uto reFrance raiva muGungwa reBaltic munguva yeHondo yeFrance nePrussia, asi dzakabva pasina kana rutivi rwakarova. Munguva yebasa rayo munguva yorugare, Blitz yakatumirwa kuGungwa reMediterranean kaviri, muna 1863 na 18671868. Yakashandiswa sechikepe chokudzivirira hove, chikepe chevarindi, uye chikepe chekuongorora mukutanga kwema1870, isati yadzingwa muna 1875 uye yakaparadzaniswa kuti ishandiswe mu1878. Zvikamu zvemichina yake zvakashandiswazve muchikepe chehondo. 