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List of Italian cruisers
Contents
1
Protected and light cruisers
1.1
Protected cruisers
1.2
Colonial cruisers
1.3
Scout cruisers
1.4
WWI war prizes
1.5
Light cruisers
2
Armoured cruisers
3
Heavy cruisers
4
Helicopter cruiser
Protected and light cruisers
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
Calabria
(1894) - Stricken 1924
Puglia
(1898) - Stricken 1923, front of ship preserved at Gardone
Agordat class
Agordat
(1899) - Stricken 1923
Coatit
(1899) - Stricken 1920, BU
Colonial cruisers
Libia
(1912) - Built for the
Ottoman Empire
as
Drama
. BU 1937
Basilicata class
Basilicata
(1914) - Sank after explosion in 1919, Refloated 1920, BU 1921
Campania
(1914) - Stricken 1937
Scout cruisers
Quarto
(1911) - Sold 1938, BU after 1939
Nino Bixio class
Nino Bixio
(1911) - Stricken 1929, BU
Marsala
(1912) - Stricken 1927, BU
WWI war prizes
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
Light cruisers
Giussano class
Alberico da Barbiano
(1930) - Sunk 1941
Alberto di Giussano
(1930) - Sunk 1941
Bartolomeo Colleoni
(1930) - Sunk 1940
Giovanni delle Bande Nere
(1930) - Sunk 1942
Cadorna class
Luigi Cadorna
(1931) - BU 1950s
Armando Diaz
(1932) - Sunk 1941
Montecuccoli class
Raimondo Montecuccoli
(1934) - BU 1960s
Muzio Attendolo
(1934) - Sunk 1942
Duca d'Aosta class
Emmanuele 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) - Surrendered 1943
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
, 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
Armoured 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
Cristobal Colon
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 Marco class
San Marco
(1908) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk c. 1944
San Giorgio
(1908) - Scuttled 1941
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 cruiser
Vittorio Veneto class
Vittorio Veneto (550)
(1969) - BU 2006