List of cruisers of Italy

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Heavy cruiser Zara in 1940

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

## Contents

* 1 Protected cruisers
* 2 Torpedo cruisers
* 3 Scout cruisers
* 4 Light cruisers
* 5 Armored cruisers
* 6 Heavy cruisers
* 7 Helicopter cruisers
* 8 See also
* 9 External links

## Protected cruisers

Main article: Engineering:List of protected cruisers of Italy

* Giovanni Bausan (1883) - Sold 1920
* Etna class
* Etna (1885) - Sold 1921
* Vesuvio (1886) - Sold 1911
* Stromboli (1886) - Sold 1907
* Ettore Fieramosca (1888) - Sold 1909
* Dogali (1885) - Sold to Uruguay 1908 and renamed Montevideo, BU 1932
* Piemonte (1888) - Sold 1920
* Regioni class
* Umbria (1891) - Sold to Haiti 1911 and renamed Consul Gostrück, BU 1913
* Lombardia (1890) - Sold 1920
* Etruria (1891) - Sank 1918
* Liguria (1893) - Sold 1921
* Elba (1893) - Transformed to seaplane tender 1915, Stricken 1921, Sold 1923
* Puglia (1898) - Stricken 1923, front of ship preserved at Gardone
* Calabria (1894) - Stricken 1924
* Libia (1912) - Built for the Ottoman Empire as Drama. Seized by Italy 1911, BU 1937
* Quarto (1911) - Sold 1938, BU after 1939
* Nino Bixio class
* Nino Bixio (1911) - Stricken 1929, BU
* Marsala (1912) - Stricken 1927, BU
* Campania class
* Campania (1914) - Sank after explosion in 1919, Refloated 1920, BU 1921
* Basilicata (1914) - Stricken 1937

## Torpedo cruisers

Main article: Engineering:List of torpedo cruisers of Italy

* Pietro Micca (1876)
* Tripoli (1886)
* Goito class
* Goito (1888)
* Monzambano (1889)
* Montebello (1889)
* Confienza (1890)
* Folgore class
* Folgore
* Saetta

Partenope c. 1895

* Partenope class
* Partenope
* Minerva
* Euridice
* Urania
* Iride
* Aretusa
* Caprera
* Calatafimi
* Agordat class
* Agordat (1899) - Stricken 1923
* Coatit (1899) - Stricken 1920, BU

## Scout cruisers

* Aquila-class
* Aquila
* Sparviero
* Nibbio
* Falco

## 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 Helgoland) - Stricken 1937, BU
* Venezia (ex-Austrian Saida) - Stricken 1937, BU
* Ancona (ex-German Graudenz) - Stricken 1937, BU

Cruiser Armando Diaz in 1935.

* Giussano class
* Alberico da Barbiano (1930) - Sunk 1941
* Alberto di Giussano (1930) - Sunk 1941
* Bartolomeo Colleoni (1930) - Sunk 1940
* Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (1930) - Sunk 1942
* Luigi Cadorna class
* Luigi Cadorna (1931) - BU 1950s
* Armando Diaz (1932) - Sunk 1941
* Raimondo Montecuccoli class
* Raimondo Montecuccoli (1934) - BU 1960s
* Muzio Attendolo (1934) - Sunk 1942
* Duca d'Aosta class
* Emanuele 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

San Giorgio (ex-Pompeo Magno) after her post-war conversion to a large destroyer.

* 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 class
* Vettor Pisani (1895) - Stricken 1920
* Carlo Alberto (1896) - Stricken 1920
* Giuseppe Garibaldi class
* 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 Cristóbal Colón 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)
* Mitra (1902) - To Argentina as Bernardino Rivadavia \- To Japan as Kasuga, sunk 1945
* San Rocco (1903) - To Argentina as Mariano Moreno \- To Japan as Nisshin, sunk 1942

Pisa in 1932

* Pisa class
* Pisa (1907) - Sold 1937
* Amalfi (1908) - Torpedoed 1915
* San Giorgio class
* San Giorgio (1908) - Scuttled 1941
* San Marco (1908) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk c. 1944

## Heavy cruisers

Main article: Engineering:List of heavy cruisers of Italy

* 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
* Bolzano (1932) - Sunk 1944

## Helicopter cruisers

Vittorio Veneto

* Andrea Doria class
* Andrea Doria in commission from 1964 - 1992
* Caio Duilio in commission from 1964 - 1989
* Vittorio Veneto (1969) - BU 2006

## See also

* List of battleships of Italy

## External links

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