 All three ships had been transferred to the Reserve Squadron by 1905 , and they were quickly discarded . In 1908 , the Italian Navy decided to discard Ruggiero di Lauria and Francesco Morosini , while Andrea Doria remained in service until 1911 . Francesco Morosini was expended as a target ship for torpedo experiments in September 1909 . Ruggiero di Lauria was converted into a floating oil tank in 1909 and was renamed GM 45 ; she was sunk in an air raid in 1943 during World War II . Andrea Doria served as a depot ship until Italy entered World War I in May 1915 , when she was employed as a guard ship in Brindisi . After the war , she too was converted into an oil tank , before being broken up for scrap in 1929 . 
