List of ship classes in the Italian Navy

Below is a selection of warship classes that are or have been in service with the Italian Navy :

Aircraft carrier

• Cavour (27,000 ts, 2007–)
• Giuseppe Garibaldi (13,000 ts, 1985–)
• Aquila (27,800 ts, 1943), unfinished conversion of the passenger steamer Roma (ship, 1926)

Battleships

Dreadnoughts :

• Littorio class (4 ships, 46,000 ts, 1937–1948)
• Conte di Cavour class (3 ships, 29,000 ts, 1914–1955)
• Caio Duilio class (2 ships, 29,000 ts, 1914–1957)
• Dante Alighieri (1 ship, 21,800 ts, 1913–1928)

Pre-Dreadnoughts :

• Vittorio Emanuele class (4 ships, 14,000 ts, 1904)
• Regina Margherita class (2 ships, 14,500 ts, 1901–1916)
• Emanuele Filiberto class (2 ships, 10,531 ts, 1897)
• Re-Umberto class (3 ships, 15,454 ts, 1890)

Ironclads and others:

• Caio Duilio class (2 ships, 12,000 ts, 1876)
• Roma class (2 ships, 6,250 ts, 1865)

cruiser

• Vittorio Veneto (1 flight deck cruiser , 9,200 ts, 1969-2004)
• Andrea Doria class (1962) (2 ships, 6,500 ts, 1963–1992)
• Zara class (4 heavy cruisers , 14,500 ts, 1933–1943)
• Trento class (3 heavy cruisers, 13,500 ts, 1929–1943)
• Condottieri class (12 light cruisers in 5 subclasses):
  • Alberto di Giussano class (4 light cruisers, 7,000 ts, 1931–1941)
  • Cadorna class (2 light cruisers, 7,100 ts, 1933–1951)
  • Montecuccoli class (2 light cruisers, 8,900 ts, 1934–1964)
  • Duca d'Aosta class (2 light cruisers, 10,500 ts, 1934–1951)
  • Duca degli Abruzzi class (2 light cruisers, 11,700 ts, 1936–1971)
• Capitani Romani class (12 light cruisers ordered, 4 built, 5,420 ts, 1941–1971)
• Taranto class (2 former German cruisers Strasbourg , Pillau , 5,200 ts, 1920–1943)
• Brindisi class (2 former kuk cruisers Helgoland , Saida , 3,488 ts, 1920–1934)
• Pisa class (2 armored cruisers , 11,300 t, 1909–1937 and 1 ship Greece)
• San Giorgio class (1908) (2 armored cruisers, 11,300 t, 1908–1941)
• Giuseppe Garibaldi class (3 armored cruisers, 7,350 t, 1901–1930 and 4 ships Argentina, 1 ship Spain, 2 ships Japan)
• Vittor Pisani class (2 armored cruisers, 6,270 t, 1898–1920)
• Marco Polo (1892) (1 armored cruiser, 4,580 t, 1894–1922)
• Campania class (2 light cruisers, 2780 t, 1917–1937)
• Nino-Bixio class (2 light cruisers, 3575 t, 1914–1929)
• Libia (1912) (1 light cruiser, 3800 t, 1913–1937, started for Turkey)
• Quarto (1911) (1 light cruiser, 3281 t, 1912–1939)
• Agordat class (2 light cruisers, 1250 t, 1900–1920)
• Calabria (1894) ( protected cruiser , 2390 t, 1897–1924)
• Lombardia class (5 protected cruisers, 2280–2490 t, 1893–1924)
• Piemonte (1888) (1 torpedo cruiser , 2639 t, 1889–1920)
• Dogali (ship, 1885) (1 torpedo cruiser, 2088 t, 1887–1908)

destroyer

• Horizon class (2 ships, 2007–)
• De la Penne class (2 ships, 1990–)
• Audace class (2 ships, 4,500 ts, 1972-2003)
• Impavido class (2 ships, 3,900 ts, 1963–1991)
• Indomito class (1955) (2 ships, 3,800 ts, 1955–1983)
• Soldati class (19 ships in 2 series, 2,500 ts, 1937–1948)
• Oriani class (4 ships, 1950 ts, 1935–1948) like Vincenzo Gioberti
• Maestrale class (4 ships, 2,235 ts, 1931–1943)
• Folgore class (4 ships, 2,100 ts, 1929–1943)
• Dardo class , also Freccia class. (4 ships, 1,920 ts, 1929-1943); 4 similar built for Greece
• Navigatori class (12 ships, 2,657 ts, 1928–1941)
• Turbine class (8 ships, 1,715 ts, 1925–1943) like euro
• Sauro class (4 ships, 1,580 ts, 1924–1942)
• Sella class (2 ships, 1,480 ts, 1922–1943)
• Leone class (5 ships, 2,203 ts, 1921–1941)
• Fasana and Grado class (7 boats ex kuk Tátra class, 850/880 t, 1920–1939, spoils of war, from 1929 torpedo boats)
• Ardimentoso (1 boat ex S 63 , 919 t, 1925–1939, spoils of war)
• Cesare Rossarol (1 boat ex B 97 , 1374 t, 1920–1939, spoils of war)
• Premuda (1918) (1 ship ex V 116 , 2040 t, 1920–1939, spoils of war)
• Mirabello class (3 ships, 2,040 ts, 1916–1941)
• See below torpedo boats: Pilo class 1915 to Curtatone class 1923 (35 boats / 6 classes, 770 to 1170 t) to 1929/1938 destroyers
• Aquila class (4 ships, 1594 t, 1917–1938, under construction for Romania, two delivered in 1920, the two remaining sold to Spain)
• Alessandro Poerio class (3 ships, 1028 t, 1915–1938, the remaining two sold to Spain in 1937)
• Audace class (2 boats, 750 t, 1914–1923)
• Ardito class (2 boats, 695 t, 1913–1937, torpedo boats from 1929)
• Indomito class (1913) (6 boats, 672 t, 1913–1943, torpedo boats from 1929)
• Ascaro (1 boat Soldati class, 397 t, 1912–1930, originally under construction for China, torpedo boat from 1921)
• Soldati class (10 boats in 2 groups, 395/407 t, 1907–1932, from 1921 torpedo boats)
• Nembo class (6 boats, 325 t, 1902–1924)
• Lampo class (6 boats, 320 t, 1900–1924)
• Fulmine (1898) (single boat, 298 t, 1900–1921)

Frigates

• Bergamini class (4 ships in service and 6 more under construction or planned, 5,750 ts, 2009–)
• Maestrale class (8 ships, 3,000 ts, 1979–)
• Artigliere class (4 ships, 2,500 ts, 1995–)
• Lupo class (4 ships, 2,500 ts, 1976-2003)
• Alpino class (2 ships, 2,700 ts, 1967–1996; until 2008 as MCMV tender or test ship)
• Bergamini class (4 ships, 1,600 ts, 1960–1988)
• Centauro class (4 ships, 2,250 ts, 1954–1984)

Corvettes / OPVs

• Minerva class (8 ships)
• Cassiopea class (6 ships)
• Cigala Fulgosi class (6 ships)
• De Cristofaro class (4 ships, 940 t, 1963–1994)
• Albatros class (4 ships, 950 t, 1954–1986)
• Gabbiano class (60 ships in 5 series, 740 t, 1942–1973)

Submarines

• U-212A class (2 boats, 1,800 ts, 2004–)
• Sauro class (8 boats in 4 series, 1,800 ts, 1980–)
• Toti class (4 boats, 580 ts, 1967–1999)
• Acciaio class (" Type 600 ", 13 coastal boats, 715 t, 1939-1946)
• Adua class ("Type 600", 17 coastal boats, 698 t, 1936–1943)
• Argonauta class ("Type 600", 7 coastal boats, 665 t, 1929–1948)
• Perla class ("Type 600", 10 coastal boats, 700 t, 1935–1947)
• Sirena class ("Type 600", 12 coastal boats, 701 t, 1931–1943)
• Archimede class (2 ocean-going boats, 985 t, 1931-1946)
• Argo class (2 coastal boats, 794 t, 1935–1943)
• Balilla class (4 ocean-going boats, 1405 t, 1925-1946)
• Bandiera class (4 boats, 941 t, 1928–1948)
• Bragadin class (2 mine laying boats, 981 t, 1927–1948)
• Brin class (5 ocean-going boats, 1016 t, 1936–1948)
• Cagni class (4 deep sea boats, 1708 t, 1939–1945)
• Calvi class (3 ocean-going boats, 1550 t, 1932–1944)
• Fieramosca class (1 deep sea boat, 1556 t, 1926–1946)
• Foca class (3 mine laying boats, 1333 t, 1936–1947)
• Glauco class (2 ocean-going boats, 1055 t, 1931–1941)
• H-class (5 boats out of 8 built in Canada, 390 t, 1916–1947)
• Liuzzi class (4 deep sea boats, 1187 t, 1938–1944)
• Mameli class (4 boats, 830 t, 1925–1948)
• Marcello class (11 ocean-going boats, 1063 t, 1937–1943)
• Marconi class (6 ocean-going boats, 1195 t, 1938–1945)
• Micca class (1 mine-laying boat, 1570 t, 1931-1943)
• Pisani class (4 boats, 880 t, 1925–1948)
• R-Class (2 transport boats, 2210 t, 1942–1943)
• Settembrini class (2 boats, 953 t, 1928–1944)
• Squalo class (4 boats, 933 t, 1928–1948)
• Tritone class (10 of planned 48 Mediterranean boats, 950 t, 1941–1971)
• X-Class (2 of formerly 3 mine-laying boats, 400 t, 1917-1940)
• Provana class (1918) (4 boats, 762 ts, 1918-1928)
• N-class (6 boats, 280 ts, 1917–1935)
• F-class (21 boats, 262 ts, 1916–1935, several exported)
• Micca class (1917) (6 boats, 1,063 ts, 1917-1937)
• Pacinotti class (1916) (2 boats, 720 ts)
• Pullino class (1913) (3 boats, 355 ts, 1913-1919)
• Nautilius class (1911) (2 boats, 300 ts, 1913-1919)
• Atropo class (1 boat built in Kiel, 500 ts, 1912-1919)
• Medusa class (1911) (8 boats, 250 ts, 1912-1918)
• Foca class (1 boat, 185 ts, 1908-1918)
• Glauco class (1905) (5 boats, 160 ts, 1905-1918)
• Delfino class (first Italian submarine, 100 ts, 1892-1918)

Torpedo boats

• Pilo class (8 boats, 770/900 tons, 1915 to 1929 destroyers)
• Sirtori class (4 boats, 845/965 t, 1916 to 1929 destroyers)
• Audace (1 boat, 1,250 / 1,364 t, 1917 to 1929 destroyer, built in the UK, originally intended for Japan)
• La Masa class (8 boats, 840/875 t, destroyers from 1917 to 1929)
• Palestro class (4 boats, 1,033 / 1,180 t, destroyers from 1921 to 1929)
• Cantore class (6 boats, 832/890 t, destroyers from 1921 to 1929)
• Curtatone class (4 boats, 1,170 / 1,214 t, destroyers from 1923 to 1938)
• Spica class (30 boats in 3 series, 795 / 1,020 t, 1933–1943)
• Orsa class (4 boats, 840 / 1,575 t, 1936–1943)
• Ciclone class (16 boats, 910 / 1,625 t, 1942–1943)
• Ariete class (16 boats, 745 / 1,110 t, 1942–1949)

Speed ​​boats

• Sparviero class (1 + 6 hydrofoils, 63 ts, 50 kn, 1971–1994)

MAS - Motoscafo Armato Silurante

• 500 MAS class (77 boats in 5 series, 22–29 t, 1937–1943)
• 12t SVAN class (5 boats, 12 t)
• 13t SVAN class (3 boats, 13 t)
• 14t SVAN class (5 boats, 14 t)

Minesweepers

• Lerici class (4 boats)
• Gaeta class (8 boats)

DropShips

• San Giorgio class (3 ships)
• Sesia class (4 ships)
• Adige (single ship)

Supply ships

• Stromboli class (2 ships)
• Etna class (1 ship)

Others

• Sail training ship " Amerigo Vespucci "
• Sail training ship " Palinuro "
• Fleet service boat " Elettra "

See also

• Italian naval history
• Italian naval units in World War II

Remarks

1. ↑ For reasons of secrecy, the ships were officially classified as water tankers.
2. ↑ The ship was officially classified as a water tanker for reasons of confidentiality.