Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna 1888, "Leipzig" yakatanga basa guru rokuparadzira mhiri kwemakungwa, kutanga kuGerman East Africa, iyo yakanga iri pakati pokumukira kwaAbushiri
. "Leipzig" nedzimwe ngarava dzinoverengeka dzehondo dzakaumba chikwata chevafambisi vepasi pasi pehutungamiriri hwa"Konteradmiral" (Rear Admiral) Karl August Deinhard. Ngarava dzacho dzakabatsira pakudzivirira guta reDar es Salaam neBagamoyo, dzakarwisa mabhomba nemauto evapanduki aiva pedyo nemhenderekedzo yegungwa, uye dzakatumira mapoka evapanduki kumhenderekedzo yegungwa kuti abatsire kutorazve maguta akanga atorwa nevapanduki. Kumukira kwakakundwa na 1890, kuchibvumira "Leipzig" uye mamwe makorovheti echikwata kuti aende kuEast Asia. Asi pashure pokutanga kweHondo yevagari vemo yeChile muna 1891, ngarava dzacho dzakatumirwa kunodzivirira vagari veGermany munyika yacho uye dzakatumira boka rokumhara kuValparaiso kunochengetedza vaGermany vaiva muguta racho. Pashure pokunge hondo yapera, "Leipzig" yakaenda kuEast Africa, uko kuvapo kwayo kwakabvumikisa kuva kusingakoshi. Akaenderera mberi kuenda kuEast Asia asati adzorerwa kuEast Africa nekuda kwekutya kwekupokana kutsva kunokonzerwa nekutsiva kwaSultan Ali bin Said weZanzibar. Ikoku kwakanga kuri kunetseka kusina hwaro, uye pashure pokunge kuongorora muCape Town kwakaratidza kuderera kukuru kwomugariro wake, akadanwa kuGermany. Zvaakaonekwa kuti haana kukodzera kugadziriswa, akachinjwa kuva ngarava yevarwi uye kudzidzisa hulk muna 1895, basa raakazadza kusvikira muna 1919, paakanyura zvisingatarisirwi. Yakamutswa muna 1921 uye yakaparadzaniswa gore iroro.