List of cruisers of Italy

This is a list of all modern cruisers built by Italy, starting from the 1880s.

• 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

• 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

• Aquila-class
  • Aquila
  • Sparviero
  • Nibbio
  • Falco

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Andrea Doria class
  • Andrea Doria in commission from 1964 - 1992
  • Caio Duilio in commission from 1964 - 1989
• Vittorio Veneto (1969) - BU 2006

• List of battleships of Italy

• Incrociatori Marina Militare website (in Italian)