Like other obsolete Italian destroyers, the seven surviving ships were reclassified as torpedo boats in 1929, and served during Second World War.

The remaining two ships survived the war and continued to serve in the post-war Italian Navy (Marina Militare) before being decommissioned in 1957–1958.

The machinery consisted of four oil-fired Thornycroft boilers and two Tosi steam turbines that delivered 15,500 shp (11,600 kW).

The fuel storage amounted to 150 tons of oil, the range was 2,230 nmi (4,130 km; 2,570 mi) at cruising speed of 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph).

Between 1940 and 1942 five of the ships - Angelo Bassini, Enrico Cosenz, Nicola Fabrizi, Giuseppe La Farina, Giacomo Medici - had two or even three of their 102 mm guns and one of their two torpedo tubes removed.

When the armistice came into effect at the end of the First World War, two ships of the class, Giuseppe La Masa and Nicola Fabrizi, belonged to a squadron led by Audace, which took Trieste with 200 Carabiniere.

On the night of 8 October 1919, Agostino Bertani, which was only completed in June 1919 as the penultimate ship of the class, was taken over by officers in Trieste, who wanted to join Gabriele D'Annunzio in Fiume.

Italy captured Fiume in December 1920 and the ships that defected to D'Annunzio's legionaries returned to the Regia Marina in January 1921, where they were decommissioned.