 Obsolescent by the beginning of World War I , Vettor Pisani was not very active during the war . She spent the war in the Adriatic and participated in an abortive attempt in mid @-@ 1915 to bombard a rail line near Ragusa Vecchia on the Dalmatian coast . An Austro @-@ Hungarian submarine , U @-@ 4 , intercepted the Italian ships and sank the armored cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi . The loss of Giuseppe Garibaldi and the sinking of the armored cruiser Amalfi by another submarine on 7 July severely restricted the activities of the other ships based at Venice . She subsequently became a repair ship in 1916 and was stricken from the Navy List on 2 January 1920 . Vettor Pisani was sold for scrap and broken up beginning on 13 March . 
