Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - SMS "Delphin" yaive yePrussian Navy (yakazotevera Imperial German Navy) iyo yakatangwa muna 1860. Chikepe chiduku, chakashongedzerwa nezvombo zviduku zvitatu bedzi, "Delphin" chakashumira mukati meHondo yechipiri yeSchleswig ya1864 uye Hondo yeAustria-Prussian ya1866, rutivi rwekurwisana kwakabatanidza Germany. Ngarava yacho yakanga iripo pa, asi yakangobatanidzwa zvishoma muHondo yeJasmund
muhondo yechipiri yeSchleswig. Ngarava yakapedza nguva yakawanda yebasa rayo muGungwa reMediterranean, ichienda kunzvimbo nhatu dzakareba ikoko muna 1865-1866, 1867-1870, uye 1871-1873. Munguva yokupedzisira rwendo, iye akatora chikamu mumabasa kubva pamhenderekedzo Spain ane Anglo-German dzechikwata munguva Third Carlist War, apo iye akabatsira kudzvinyirira mauto vanopandukira hurumende Spanish. Kwemakore ose okuma1870, yakashanda sechikepe chokuongorora muNorth neBaltic Seas isati yaiswa mubasa munaAugust 1881, yakabviswa mubhuku rezvikepe mwedzi wakatevera, uye yakabva yaputswa kuti ishandiswe.