The Campania class was a pair of small protected cruisers built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1910s.

Basilicata was destroyed by a boiler explosion in 1919, two years after entering service, and was subsequently raised and scrapped.

Campania remained in service for significantly longer, but she did not see action and ended her career as a training ship before being scrapped in 1937.

[1] These weapons, which were built-up guns, could fire armor-piercing and high-explosive shells at a muzzle velocity of 690 meters per second (2,280 ft/s).

Basilicata's career was cut short on 13 August 1919, when one of her boilers exploded while she was moored in Tewfik at the southern end of the Suez Canal.

The explosion sank the ship; she was raised in September 1920 but was deemed not worth repairing, and so she was sold for scrap in July 1921.

She became a full-time training ship in 1932, a role in which she served until March 1937, when she was stricken from the naval register and sold for scrap.