sentences:  After Italy surrendered to the Allies on 8 September 1943, the rest of the Italian Navy steamed to Sardinia to rendezvous with their American contemporaries.Still incomplete in Trieste, "Impero" was captured by the Germans, who used the hulk for target practice.Sunk by Allied bombers in February 1945, she was refloated in 1947 and scrapped in Venice from 1948 to 1950.