List of cruisers of Italy



This is a list of all modern cruisers built by Italy, starting from the 1880s.

Protected cruisers

 * ITALIAN CRUISER Giovanni Bausan (1883) - Sold 1920
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Etna (1885) - Sold 1921
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Vesuvio (1886) - Sold 1911
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Stromboli (1886) - Sold 1907
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Ettore Fieramosca (1888) - Sold 1909
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Dogali (1885) - Sold to Uruguay 1908 and renamed Montevideo, BU 1932
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Piemonte (1888) - Sold 1920
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Umbria (1891)
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Lombardia (1890) - Sold 1920
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Etruria (1891) - Sank 1918
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Liguria (1893) - Sold 1921
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Elba (1893) - Transformed to seaplane tender 1915, Stricken 1921, Sold 1923
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Puglia (1898) - Stricken 1923, front of ship preserved at Gardone
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Calabria (1894) - Stricken 1924
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Libia (1912) - Built for the Ottoman Empire as Drama. Seized by Italy 1911, BU 1937
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Quarto (1911) - Sold 1938, BU after 1939
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Nino Bixio (1911) - Stricken 1929, BU
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Marsala (1912) - Stricken 1927, BU
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Campania (1914) - Sank after explosion in 1919, Refloated 1920, BU 1921
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Basilicata (1914) - Stricken 1937
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Marsala (1912) - Stricken 1927, BU
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Campania (1914) - Sank after explosion in 1919, Refloated 1920, BU 1921
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Basilicata (1914) - Stricken 1937
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Basilicata (1914) - Stricken 1937

Torpedo cruisers

 * ITALIAN CRUISER Pietro Micca (1876
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Tripoli (1886
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Goito (1888)
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Monzambano (1889)
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Montebello (1889)
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Confienza (1890)
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Folgore
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Saetta
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Folgore
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Saetta
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Partenope
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Minerva
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Euridice
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Urania
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Iride
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Aretusa
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Caprera
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Calatafimi
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Agordat (1899) - Stricken 1923
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Coatit (1899) - Stricken 1920, BU
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Agordat (1899) - Stricken 1923
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Coatit (1899) - Stricken 1920, BU

Light cruisers

 * Taranto (1911, ex-German Strassburg) - scuttled 1943, sunk 1943 & 1944, BU 1946 or later
 * Bari (1914, ex-German Pillau) - Sunk 1943, BU 1948
 * Brindisi (ex-Austrian SMS Helgoland (1912)) - Stricken 1937, BU
 * Venezia (ex-Austrian SMS Saida) - Stricken 1937, BU
 * Ancona (ex-German Graudenz) - Stricken 1937, BU
 * Giussano class
 * Alberico da Barbiano (1930) - Sunk 1941
 * Alberto di Giussano (1930) - Sunk 1941
 * Bartolomeo Colleoni (1930) - Sunk 1940
 * Giovanni delle Bande Nere (1930) - Sunk 1942
 * Cadorna class
 * Luigi Cadorna (1931) - BU 1950s
 * Armando Diaz (1932) - Sunk 1941
 * Montecuccoli class
 * Raimondo Montecuccoli (1934) - BU 1960s
 * Muzio Attendolo (1934) - Sunk 1942
 * Duca d'Aosta class
 * Emmanuele Filiberto Duca D'Aosta (1934) - Transferred to Soviet Union 1949, renamed first Stalingrad, than Kerch
 * Eugenio di Savoia (1935) - Transferred to Greece 1951, renamed Elli
 * Duca degli Abruzzi class
 * Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi (1936) - BU 1961 or later
 * Giuseppe Garibaldi (1936) - BU 1970s
 * Capitani Romani class (Only those units marked * were completed)
 * Attilio Regolo* (1940) - Sold to France 1948 and renamed Chateaurenault
 * Scipione Africano* (1941) - Sold to France 1948 and renamed Guichen
 * Pompeo Magno* (1941) - Renamed San Giorgio, rebuilt as large destroyer 1951-55, BU 1980
 * Ulpio Traiano (1942) - Torpedoed 1943
 * Ottaviano Augusto (1942) - Sunk 1943
 * Cornelio Silla (1941) - Sunk 1944
 * Claudio Druso (-) - BU
 * Caio Mario (1941) - Scuttled 1943/44
 * Paolo Emilio (-) - BU
 * Vipsania Agrippa (-) - BU
 * Giulio Germanico (1941) - Renamed San Marco, rebuilt as large destroyer 1951-55, BU 1971/80
 * Claudio Tiberio (-)
 * Etna class (not completed)
 * Etna (1942) - Scuttled 1943, Refloated, BU postwar
 * Vesuvio (1941) - Scuttled 1943, Refloated, BU postwar
 * Cattaro (ex-Yugoslav Dalmacija, captured 1941, ex-German Niobe, purchased 1924) - Torpedoed 1943
 * FR 11 (ex-French Jean de Vienne, captured 1943) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk 1944
 * FR 12 (ex-French La Galissonniere, captured 1943) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk 1944

Armored cruisers



 * Marco Polo (1892) - Sold for BU 1922
 * Vettor Pisani (1895) - Stricken 1920
 * Carlo Alberto (1896) - Stricken 1920
 * Giuseppe Garibaldi (1895) - To Argentina as General Garibaldi, BU 1935
 * Varese (1896) - To Argentina as General San Martin, BU 1935
 * Varese (1897) - To Argentina as General Belgrano, BU 1948
 * Giuseppe Garibaldi (c. 1896) - To Spain as Cristobal Colon 1897, sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
 * Giuseppe Garibaldi (1897) - To Argentina as General Pueyrredon, removed 1954
 * Varese (1899)
 * Giuseppe Garibaldi (1899)
 * Francesco Ferruccio (1902)
 * ? (1902) - To Japan as Kasuga
 * ? (1903) - To Japan as Nisshin
 * Pisa (1907) - Sold 1937
 * Amalfi (1908) - Torpedoed 1915
 * San Giorgio (1908) - Scuttled 1941
 * San Marco (1908) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk c. 1944
 * Amalfi (1908) - Torpedoed 1915
 * San Giorgio (1908) - Scuttled 1941
 * San Marco (1908) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk c. 1944
 * San Marco (1908) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk c. 1944

Heavy cruisers

 * Trento class
 * Trento (1927) - Sunk 1942
 * Trieste (1926) - Sunk 1943
 * Zara class
 * Zara (1930) - Sunk 1941
 * Pola (1931) - Sunk 1941
 * Fiume (1930) - Sunk 1941
 * Gorizia (1930) - Sunk 1944
 * ITALIAN CRUISER Bolzano (1932) - Sunk 1944

Helicopter cruisers

 * Andrea Doria class
 * Andrea Doria in commission from 1964 - 1992
 * Caio Duilio in commission from 1964 - 1989


 * Vittorio Veneto class
 * Vittorio Veneto (550) (1969) - BU 2006