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List of cruisers of Italy
Last updated
July 12, 2025
Heavy cruiser
Zara
in 1940
This is a list of all modern
cruisers
built by Italy, starting from the 1880s.
Contents
Protected cruisers
Torpedo cruisers
Scout cruisers
Light cruisers
Armored cruisers
Heavy cruisers
Helicopter cruisers
See also
External links
Protected cruisers
Main article:
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:
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:
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
Incrociatori
Marina Militare website
(in Italian)
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