SS Italia was a French passenger steamship that was built as a civilian ship in 1904, requisitioned by the French Navy in the First World War as an armed boarding steamer, and sunk by an Austro-Hungarian Navy U-boat in 1917.

She had two screws, each driven by a three-cylinder triple-expansion engine.

Between them her twin engines were rated at 305 NHP[1] and gave her a speed of 16 knots (30 km/h).

Her call sign was FRI.[3] In the First World War the French Navy requisitioned Italia and had her converted into an armed boarding steamer.

On 30 May 1917 the Austro-Hungarian U-boat U-4 sank her by torpedo in the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Strait of Otranto and 46 miles southeast of Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy.