Corazziere was powered by two sets of triple expansion steam engines fed by three Thornycroft water-tube boilers, producing an estimated 6,000 indicated horsepower (4,474 kW) and driving two propeller shafts.

When they reported the sighting to higher command, they received orders to let the torpedo boats move away from the coast and then, taking advantage of the greater speed of the Italian ships, close with them and sink them.

[6] The Italian ships managed to surround the torpedo boats, which at that point attempted to escape at full steam towards the south instead of heading back toward Preveza.

[6] The Italians found this suspicious, and while Corazziere and her sister ship Artigliere pursued the torpedo boats, the destroyer Alpino steamed north to conduct a reconnaissance of the approaches to Preveza, where she discovered steamers attempting to reach Prevenza while the Ottoman torpedo boats distracted the Italian ships, and she seized one of the steamers.

Corazziere and Artigliere returned fire, reducing the torpedo boats Alpagot[8] and Hamidiye[9] to wrecks and inducing an ammuniton magazine explosion aboard one of them.

[7][10][11] In a 1912 magazine article[12] and a 1913 book[13] based on contemporary sources, United States Navy Commodore W. H. Beehler offers a different version of the events of 30 September 1911.

Artigliere and Corazziere penetrated the harbor on the morning of 30 September, where they sank Alpagot and Hamidiye with gunfire while they were at anchor; all but one man from the two torpedo boats' crews escaped to shore.

[13] Corazziere then made preparations to tow the armed yacht "Telied" away as a prize, and a "mob" on shore opened fire on her.

[17] On 29 May 1915 Artigliere, Bersagliere, Garibaldino, and Lanciere bombarded the Adria Werke chemical plant in Monfalcone, a production site for poison gases, while Corazziere, Alpino, and their sister ship Pontiere provided support.

[17] On 23 February 1916, under the command of Capitano di corvetta (Corvette Captain) Bernotti, Corazziere joined Bersagliere and Garibaldino in escorting 12 steamers and two tugs to Durrës (known to the Italians as Durazzo) on the coast of the Principality of Albania.