Granatiere ("Grenadier") was a Soldato-class ("Soldier"-class) destroyer of the Italian Regia Marina ("Royal Navy").

Granatiere was powered by two sets of triple expansion steam engines fed by three Thornycroft water-tube boilers, producing an estimated 6,000 indicated horsepower (4,474 kW) and driving two propeller shafts.

Assigned to the 3rd Destroyer Squadron in the Department of the Upper Tyrrhenian Sea, Granatiere spent an initial training period in the waters of La Spezia.

[4] On 13 May 1908, she steamed up the Tiber to Rome to receive a battle flag presented to her by the Italian Royal Army's Brigade "Granatieri di Sardegna" at the Port of Ripa Grande in the presence of King Victor Emmanuel III.

On 1 January 1909 Granatiere and the auxiliary ship Volta arrived at Messina to assist in rescue operations.

At the time, Granatiere was part of the 2nd Squadron's 4th Destroyer Division along with her sister ships Bersagliere, Garibaldino, and Lanciere.

Between 1921 and 1924 she was deployed in the Italian Dodecanese, stationed at Rhodes as the flagship of the local senior naval commander.