List of cruisers of Italy explained
This is a list of all modern cruisers built by Italy, starting from the 1880s.
Protected cruisers
See main article: List of protected cruisers of Italy.
- (1883) - Sold 1920
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- (1886) - Sold 1911
- (1886) - Sold 1907
- (1888) - Sold 1909
- (1885) - Sold to Uruguay 1908 and renamed Montevideo, BU 1932
- (1888) - Sold 1920
- (1891) - Sold to Haiti 1911 and renamed Consul Gostrück, BU 1913
- (1890) - Sold 1920
- (1891) - Sank 1918
- (1893) - Sold 1921
- (1893) - Transformed to seaplane tender 1915, Stricken 1921, Sold 1923
- (1898) - Stricken 1923, front of ship preserved at Gardone
- (1894) - Stricken 1924
- (1912) - Built for the Ottoman Empire as Drama. Seized by Italy 1911, BU 1937
- (1911) - Sold 1938, BU after 1939
- (1911) - Stricken 1929, BU
- (1912) - Stricken 1927, BU
- (1914) - Sank after explosion in 1919, Refloated 1920, BU 1921
- (1914) - Stricken 1937
Torpedo cruisers
See main article: List of torpedo cruisers of Italy.
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- (1899) - Stricken 1920, BU
Scout cruisers
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) - Stricken 1937, BU
- Venezia (ex-Austrian) - Stricken 1937, BU
- Ancona (ex-German Graudenz) - Stricken 1937, BU
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- (1930) - Sunk 1941
- (1930) - Sunk 1940
- (1930) - Sunk 1942
- (1932) - Sunk 1941
- (1934) - Sunk 1942
- (1934) - Transferred to Soviet Union 1949, renamed first Stalingrad, than Kerch
- (1935) - Transferred to Greece 1951, renamed Elli
- (1936) - BU 1961 or later
- (1936) - BU 1970s
- (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 (-)
- (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
- (1892) - Sold for BU 1922
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- (1896) - Stricken 1920
- 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 1897, sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1897) - To Argentina as General Pueyrredon, removed 1954
- (1899)
- (1899)
- (1902)
- Mitra (1902) - To Argentina as Bernardino Rivadavia - To Japan as, sunk 1945
- San Rocco (1903) - To Argentina as Mariano Moreno - To Japan as, sunk 1942
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- (1908) - Torpedoed 1915
- (1908) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk c. 1944
Heavy cruisers
See main article: List of heavy cruisers of Italy.
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- (1926) - Sunk 1943
- (1931) - Sunk 1941
- (1930) - Sunk 1941
- (1930) - Sunk 1944
- (1932) - Sunk 1944
Helicopter cruisers
- in commission from 1964 - 1992
- in commission from 1964 - 1989
- (1969) - BU 2006
See also
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