List of cruisers of Italy

Summary

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

Heavy cruiser Zara in 1940

Protected cruisers edit

Torpedo cruisers edit

 
Partenope c. 1895

Scout cruisers edit

Light cruisers edit

  • 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
 
Cruiser Armando Diaz in 1935.
 
San Giorgio (ex-Pompeo Magno) after her post-war conversion to a large destroyer.
  • 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 edit

 
Pisa in 1932

Heavy cruisers edit

Helicopter cruisers edit

 
Vittorio Veneto

See also edit

External links edit

  • Incrociatori Marina Militare website (in Italian)