 Four German 88mm AA guns were also fitted and the torpedo tubes removed.The ship had limited war service and was used as a training ship until retirement in 1956.When in service during the last months of the Spanish Civil War, "Navarra" was nicknamed "Sigamos a la flota" ("Follow the fleet"), after Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' film, because it was much slower than the two other surviving Nationalist cruisers ("Canarias" and "Almirante Cervera").