Commissioned into service in the Italian Regia Marina ("Royal Navy") in 1919, she participated in operations related to the Corfu incident in 1923.

Most of the ships then returned to Taranto, but Giuseppe La Farina and the other four destroyers as well as one of the armored cruisers, the submarines, and the MAS boats remained at Corfu.

Once Italy and Greece resolved their disagreement, the rest of the Italian ships and the expeditionary force on the island left Corfu between 24 and 29 September 1923.

During the voyage, the British submarine HMS Tetrarch torpedoed and damaged Snia Amba off Benghazi, Libya, on 4 November 1940.

During the voyage, the tankers Alberto Fassio and Luisiano and torpedo boats Climene and Orione joined the convoy, which reached Tripoli on 21 April 1941.