 On 4 August "Raimondo Montecuccoli" along with the light cruiser "Eugenio di Savoia," shelled without consequences a small Allied convoy off Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily, in an aborted attempt to attack the United States Navy fleet in port.The Allied convoy was actually an American submarine chaser, USS "SC-530", escorting a freshwater barge.The Italian cruisers withdrew after picking up a number of coastal search radars tracking them with their Metox devices.