Her coal-fired boilers were converted into oil-fired ones, and her original two short, squat funnels were replaced with three smaller, more streamlined ones, profoundly altering her appearance.

[5] On 17 April 1912 she suffered damage in a collision with Nembo, but not enough to prevent her from joining Nembo, the armored cruisers Francesco Ferruccio, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Varese, and Vettor Pisani, the torpedo cruiser Coatit, and the torpedo boats Climene, Pegaso, Perseo, and Procione in a bombardment of the Ottoman forts of Gum-Galesch and Sed Ul Bahr in the Dardanelles on 18 April 1912.

At the time, Turbine, under the command of Capitano di corvetta (Corvette Captain) Luigi Bianchi, as well as Aquilone, Borea, Nembo, and their sister ship Espero made up the 5th Destroyer Squadron, based at Taranto.

[6] On the afternoon of 23 May 1915, the day Italy declared war, Turbine and Aquilone got underway to patrol in the Adriatic Sea along the Italian coast as far north as Manfredonia.

[6][7][8] While Turbine and Aquilone were on patrol, numerous Austro-Hungarian Navy ships left port during the night of 23–24 May 1915 to carry out previously planned bombardments of military targets and coastal cities along Italy's Adriatic coast.

The Austro-Hungarian ships opened fire at 05:48, damaging Turbine and wounding some members of her crew, including Bianchi.

Posthumous Silver Medals of Military Valor went to the stoker who died in Sebenico and one of the men whose bodies Città di Siracusa recovered.

The other man whose body Città di Siracusa recovered received a posthumous Bronze Medal of Military Valor.

[6][7][8] On 24 May 1932, a marble plaque commemorating Turbine was placed at the entrance of the ravelin of Castle of Barletta on the 17th anniversary of her loss.

It reads: At dawn on 24 May 1915, the Austrian battleship [sic] Helgoland rabidly opened fire on defenseless Barletta and struck this castle, glorious over the centuries because of its structure and historical events.