Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi (1936)
| Giuseppe Garibaldi, during World War II | |
| Career | Kingdom of Italy |
|---|---|
| Laid down: | 1933 |
| Launched: | 1936 |
| Commissioned: | 1937 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Reconstructed: | 1953 |
| Fate: | reconstructed |
| 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: | 10 152/55 mm,
8 90/50 mm, 8 37/54 mm, 12 20/65 mm, 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 Condottieri class light cruiser (Duca degli Abruzzi type), that served Regia Marina during World War II.
Giuseppe Garibaldi participated to:
- battle of Calabria, during which a shell from Giuseppe Garibaldi hit Neptune, damaging its catapult and the reconnaissance aircraft;
- battle of Cape Matapan.
After the armistice (8 September 1943), it operated in the Atlantic ocean tocether with Allied ships.
In 1953, Giuseppe Garibaldi was converted into a guided missile cruiser (see Giuseppe Garibaldi (1957)).