# List of cruisers of Italy

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

## Protected cruisers

* 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

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

* 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

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