What type of action did both the Gewehr 1888 and the Gewehr 98 have in common?
Gewehr 1888 The Gewehr 88 (commonly called the Model 1888 commission rifle) was a late 19th-century German bolt action rifle, adopted in 1888.
Blitz-class aviso The "Blitz" class was a pair of avisos built by the Imperial German Navy ("Kaiserliche Marine") in the 1880s. The ships, "Blitz" and "Pfeil" , were the first steel-hulled ships of any kind built by the German Navy, and the progenitors of the later light cruisers of the "Gazelle" type. They were armed with a 12.5 cm gun and one 35 cm torpedo tube as their principal armament, and were capable of a top speed in excess of 15 kn .