List of cruisers of Italy
Appearance
This is a list of all modern cruisers built by Italy, starting from the 1880s.
Protected cruisers
[edit]- 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
- 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
[edit]- Pietro Micca (1876)
- Tripoli (1886)
- Goito class
- Goito (1888)
- Monzambano (1889)
- Montebello (1889)
- Confienza (1890)
- Folgore class
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Scout cruisers
[edit]Light cruisers
[edit]- 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
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- 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
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- 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
[edit]- 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
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- Pisa class
- San Giorgio class
- San Giorgio (1908) - Scuttled 1941
- San Marco (1908) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk c. 1944
Heavy cruisers
[edit]- Trento class
- Zara class
- Bolzano (1932) - Sunk 1944
Helicopter cruisers
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- Andrea Doria class
- Andrea Doria in commission from 1964 - 1992
- Caio Duilio in commission from 1964 - 1989
- Vittorio Veneto (1969) - BU 2006
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- Incrociatori Marina Militare website (in Italian)