List of cruisers of Italy

Heavy cruiser Zara in 1940

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 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

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

  • 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

External links

  • Incrociatori Marina Militare website (in Italian)
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