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.

Protected cruisers

Main page: 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

Main page: Engineering:List of torpedo cruisers of Italy

Partenope c. 1895

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

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

Main page: 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