List of screw corvettes of Italy

The Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) built and operated ten steam corvettes in the 19th century.

The first four vessels, San Giovanni, Magenta, Etna, and Principessa Clotilde, had been built by the Sardinian, Tuscan, and Neapolitan navies before Italy unified in 1861.

[1] Following the Second Italian War of Independence and the unification of most of Italy, the Sardinian fleet formed the nucleus of the new Regia Marina (Royal Navy) and San Giovanni passed into its service.

[3] Albini was responsible for transporting and landing the Italian army forces that were to seize the island of Lissa, though he failed to follow his orders.

[6] Starting in June 1865, Magenta went on a major cruise around the world, with the anthropologist and zoologist Enrico Hillyer Giglioli aboard.

[8] In 1870, Principessa Clotilde was sent to the western Pacific Ocean on a mission to obtain land in Borneo, which was to be used as a penal colony.

[9] The first new cruising ship built for the Italian navy, Caracciolo was laid down originally under the name Brilliante, being renamed at her launching in January 1869.

[14] She remained in service as a training ship in 1904, assigned to the Italian Naval Academy, where she was kept in commission for ten months per year.