San Marco was
laid down on 26 March 1985 and
launched on 10 October 1987 by
Fincantieri at
Riva Trigoso. She was
commissioned on 14 May 1988. Starting from December 1992 the ,
San Marco and the men of the San Marco Battalion took part in
Somalia in the Ibis I and Ibis II missions with the 24th Naval Group together with , and and with the 25th Naval Group together with the , the and . In the summer of 2006, the Navy was one of the first to intervene in the
Lebanon War. Participating in Operation Mimosa '06 and subsequently in Operation Leonte with the ,
San Marco and
San Giorgio in the front row together with , and the aircraft carrier
Giuseppe Garibaldi. The ships have landed, in the
port of Beirut, under the control of the
1st San Marco Regiment, tons of material intended for the population, field kitchens, ambulances, generators for the production of electricity, pneumatic tents, tons of medicines and tons of food. food intended for the non-combatant civilian population made available by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the
Civil Protection, the
Italian Red Cross and the
United Nations World Food Program. On 16 June 2016,
San Marco, , , , , and
Stromboli participated in the Flotta Verde exercise as part of the
Great Green Fleet initiative. Operated alongside , and . == Gallery ==