Faà di Bruno was an Italian monitor laid down on 10 October 1915 being designed by Rear Admiral Giuseppe Rota it was essentially a self-propelled barge as she lacked a bow and, it was armed with a main battery of one, twin 15 inch gun. The ship was launched on 30 January 1916 and commissioned into the Regia Marina on 1 April 1917. Her first action came during the 11th Battle of the Isonzo in August 1917. Together with the Italian monitor Alfredo Cappellini and the British monitors Earl of Peterborough and Sir Thomas Picton, she bombarded Austro-Hungarian positions with little noticeable effect. She was driven ashore in a storm in November, but was not salvaged for almost a full year.
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