Tifone was a Ciclone-class torpedo boat that served with the Italian Navy during the Second World War.

[2] Tifone's keel was laid down on 17 June 1941 by Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico at Trieste.

she took part, both as escort vessel and supply ship, of the Cigno convoy, which beat off a British destroyer attack on 17 April 1943.

The small convoy successfully eluded a flotilla of British destroyers that had sunk the transport Campobasso and her escort the torpedo boat Perseo.

[2] Tifone was severely damaged in harbor by United States Army Air Forces aircraft while planning a return convoy to Palermo.