 "Budapest" was scheduled for a shore bombardment on 12 December, but was postponed for a week by bad weather.Escorted by the light cruiser , six destroyers, nine torpedo boats and a dozen minesweepers, "Budapest" and the pre-dreadnought bombarded the Castellazzo fortifications on 19 December.The ship transferred to Pola two days later, and she was decommissioned on 11 March 1918.