Originally commissioned for the Royal Thai Navy in 1938 as the lead ship of the two Taksin-class light cruisers, HTMS Taksin unfortunately never made it to Thailand due to Italy's urgent need for raw materials and thus were confiscated in 1942. Under her new ownership, Taksin was renamed Etna and reclassified as an anti-air cruiser. While being outfitted together with RN Vesuvio in the Trieste shipyards, Etna was captured by German forces on September 10 1943, after the proclamation of the Armistice, and was found half sunk at the liberation of Trieste in April 1945. It was struck off the Military Naval Register by decree of the Provisional Head of State on March 27 1947.

The RN Etna was introduced in Update "Ixwa Strike". It performs reasonably well as a light cruiser, but due to being designed specifically against aircraft, it may have difficulties when facing multiple targets such as destroyers and enemy cruisers. Naturally, the strongest part of the ship is the anti-aircraft armament, in fact, you will very rarely be destroyed by enemy planes thanks to your dense anti-aircraft defences. The manoeuvrability and speed are not bad, and the armour is also quite good, able to withstand several salvoes of enemy ships, though still weak to torpedoes, bombs and rockets.