title: List of cruisers of Italy
text: # 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
  