Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan shiga sabis, "Blitz" ya zama shugaban rundunar jiragen ruwa don I Torpedo-boat Flotilla; a lokacin, Alfred von Tirpitz, mai tsara makomar Babban Jirgin Ruwa, ya jagoranci ayyukan jiragen ruwa na jirgin ruwa, kuma "Blitz" ya shiga cikin kimantawa na damar jirgin ruwa a farkon shekarun 1880. Wadannan sun hada da gwaje-gwaje don nuna ikon jiragen ruwa don yin aiki daga cikin ruwa, ruwa na bakin teku da kuma gwaje-gwaje na makamai. "Pfeil" ya fara aiki tare da tawagar horo har zuwa karshen 1889, lokacin da aka tura shi zuwa Gabashin Afirka na Jamus don taimakawa wajen kawar da tawayen Abushiri
Ka yi haƙuri. Ta taimaka wajen aiwatar da toshewar mulkin mallaka kuma ta kuma shiga cikin ayyukan da aka yi wa sojojin 'yan tawaye, ta tura maza zuwa gabar teku da kuma harba sojojin abokan gaba. A cikin shekarun 1890, jiragen ruwa biyu sun yi aiki tare da rundunar, "Blitz" tare da jiragen ruwa na torpedo da "Pfeil" a matsayin mai kula da manyan jiragen ruwa. A wannan lokacin, sun shiga cikin tsarin horo na shekara-shekara wanda ya kunshi jiragen ruwa da jiragen ruwa da suka hada da wasan kwaikwayon da aka yi a kowace shekara a watan Agusta da Satumba. Sau da yawa suna rakiyar 'yan gidan sarauta, har da Kaiser Wilhelm II, wanda ya yi tafiya a cikin jirginsa mai suna "Hohenzollern".