Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi (1933)

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Career

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.

1 Design
2 Actions
3 References

[edit] Design

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 then their predecessors

[edit] Actions

[edit] 1940

9 July: Battle of Calabria, during which a shell from Giuseppe Garibaldi hit Neptune, damaging her catapult and the reconnaissance aircraft
1 September: operation Hats
29 September: operation MB 5
11 November: Night of Taranto

[edit] 1941

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