Sinking
Due to the Italian Armistice in 1943, she was scuttled in Shanghai by Italian forces to prevent seizure by Japanese forces; but the Japanese forces refloated the ship in 1944. The ship was repaired, converted into a troopship, and towed to Maizuru, a port town in the north of Kyoto Prefecture, in June 1945 but hit in a raid by a US B-24 bomber on July 25 and sunk again.
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