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 == See also == List of battleships of Italy == External links == Incrociatori Marina Militare website (in Italian)