 The disabled destroyer was eventually sunk by an Italian SM 79 torpedo bomber.She was heavily damaged by USAAF bombers in Naples on 4 December 1942, with the loss of 44 of her crew, but having been repaired and just weeks before the armistice, on August 1943, she was operative again.The cruiser became by this time one of the few Italian naval units fitted with the Italian designed radar EC-3 ter Gufo radar.