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Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi (1933)
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| Career |  |
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| Laid down: | 28 December 1933 |
| Launched: | 21 April 1936 |
| Commissioned: | 1 December 1937 |
| Decommissioned: | January 1972 |
| Reconstructed: | 1953 |
| Fate: | reconstructed, scrapped 1972 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 11,350 tons standard,
11,735 tons full load |
| Length: | 171.1 - 187 m |
| Beam: | 18.9 m |
| Draught: | 6.9 m |
| Propulsion: | 6 boilers, 2 shafts, 100,000 hp |
| Speed: | 34 knots (62 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,125 miles at 13 knots |
| Complement: | 640 |
| Armament: | 10 152 mm / 55 caliber (6 in)
8 90 mm / 50 caliber 8 37 mm / 54 caliber 12 20 mm / 65 caliber 6 533 mm torpedo launchers 2 anti-submarines bombers |
| Aircraft: | 4 |
| Protection: | max 140 mm (vertical)
40 mm (horizontal) |
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1933) was an Italian Duca degli Abruzzi class light cruiser, that served in the Regia Marina during World War II. After the war she was retained by the Marina Militare and re built. She was built by CRDA, Trieste and named after the Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi.
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The Duca degli Abruzzi class cruisers were the final version of the Condottieri class and were larger and better protected than their predecessors. The armament was also increased by two extra 6-inch guns, triple turrets replaced twins in the A and Y positions. The machinery was also revised which led to these ships having a slightly slower maximum speed than their predecessors
- 9 July: Battle of Calabria, during which a shell from Giuseppe Garibaldi hit HMS Neptune, damaging her catapult and the reconnaissance aircraft
- 1 September: operation Hats
- 29 September: operation MB 5
- 11 November: Night of Taranto
- 27 March: Battle of Cape Matapan. The commander of the ship is the Capitano di Vascello (Captain) Stanislao Caraciotti;
- 8 May: Tiger convoy
- 28 July: damaged by British submarine Upholder
- 20 November: Force K in Malta
After the armistice (8 September 1943), she operated in the Atlantic ocean together with Allied ships.
In 1953, Giuseppe Garibaldi was converted into a guided missile cruiser (see Giuseppe Garibaldi (1957)).
- Marina Militare official web site
- M.J. Whitley, Cruisers of World War Two, 1995 , Arms and armour Press ISBN 1-86019-874-0