This is a list of active Italian Navy ships. The navy maintains approximately 181 ships in service, including minor auxiliary vessels. The fleet has started a process of renewal that will see 50 ships retired by 2025 and replaced by 30 multi-mission ships. Ocean going fleet units include: 2 light aircraft carriers, 3 small 8,000-tonne

amphibious transport dock An amphibious transport dock, also called a landing platform dock (LPD), is an amphibious warfare ship, a warship that embarks, transports, and lands elements of a landing force for expeditionary warfare missions. Several navies currently opera ...

s, 4 air-defence destroyers, 4 general-purpose frigates, 7 anti-submarine frigates, and 8

attack submarine An attack submarine or hunter-killer submarine is a submarine specifically designed for the purpose of attacking and sinking other submarines, surface combatants and merchant vessels. In the Soviet and Russian navies they were and are called ...

s. Patrol and littoral warfare units include 2 light patrol frigate, 10

offshore patrol vessels Offshore may refer to: Science and technology * Offshore (hydrocarbons) * Offshore construction, construction out at sea * Offshore drilling, discovery and development of oil and gas resources which lie underwater through drilling a well * O ...

and two corvettes. In support of the fleet there are 10

mine countermeasure vessel A mine countermeasures vessel or MCMV is a type of naval ship designed for the location of and destruction of naval mines which combines the role of a minesweeper and minehunter A minehunter is a naval vessel that seeks, detects, and destr ...

s, 6 coastal patrol boats/special forces patrol boats and a various

auxiliary ship An auxiliary ship is a naval ship designed to support combatant ships and other naval operations. Auxiliary ships are not primary combatant vessels, though they may have some limited combat capacity, usually for purposes of self-defense. Auxil ...

s. The total displacement of the Italian Navy is approximately 275,000 tonnes.

Submarine fleet

Surface fleet

Aircraft carriers

Amphibious warfare

Major surface combatants

Patrol

Mine countermeasures

Auxiliary fleet

The Italian Navy keeps in service a number of auxiliary and support ships. These include:

Replenishment ships

Submarine support and rescue ship

Electronic support ship

Hydrographic survey vessels

Research and multi-purpose support ships

Water tanker ships

Coastal tanker ships

Coastal transport ships

Logistic tender ships

Landing craft

Deep sea tugboats

Coastal tugboats

Harbour tugboats

Harbour water and oil tanker ships

Ferry-boat

Sail training tall ships

Sail training vessel

Sailing boat cruise

Floating docks

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