List of cruisers of Italy

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)

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

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

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)

 ? (1902) - To Japan as Kasuga

 ? (1903) - To Japan as Nisshin

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 class

Vittorio Veneto (1969) - BU 2006