| Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi (1899) | |
|---|---|
| Career (Italy) |  Regia Marina |
| Name: | Giuseppe Garibaldi |
| Namesake: | Giuseppe Garibaldi |
| Builder: | Gio. Ansaldo & C., Genoa |
| Laid down: | 8 June 1898 |
| Launched: | 29 June 1899 |
| Completed: | 1 January 1901 |
| Fate: | Sunk by U-4, 18 July 1915 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Giuseppe Garibaldi-class armoured cruiser |
| Displacement: | 7,234 long tons (7,350 t) |
| Length: | 366 ft 2 in (111.6 m) |
| Beam: | 59 ft 10 in (18.2 m) |
| Draught: | 23 ft 3 in (7.1 m) |
| Installed power: | 13,655–14,713 indicated horsepower (10,183–10,971 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
Vertical triple-expansion steam engines 24 boilers |
| Speed: | 19–20 knots (35–37 km/h; 22–23 mph) |
| Complement: | 510-559 |
| Armament: |
1 × 1 - Armstrong 10-inch (254 mm) guns |
| Armour: |
Belt: 4.8 in (122 mm) Deck (ship)s: 1.5 in (38 mm) Gun turrets: 4.8 in (122 mm) Conning tower: 4.8 in (122 mm) |
Giuseppe Garibaldi was the lead ship of the Giuseppe Garibaldi-class of armoured cruisers of Italy's Regia Marina. The ship was launched on 29 June 1899.
During the Italo-Turkish War she served in Ottoman waters off Libya, the Aegean and the Levant. The cruiser was the flagship of Admiral Paolo Thaon di Revel in the campaigns of Tripoli, Tobruk, in Syria and in the Dardanelles. On 24 February 1912, together with her sister Francesco Ferruccio, she sank the Turkish gunboat Avnillah at the Battle of Beirut.
On 17 July 1915, a group of battleships commanded by Rear-Admiral Eugenio Trifari, who sailed on the Giuseppe Garibaldi, started a mission aimed at shelling the railway connection between Sarajevo and the Bay of Kotor, an important base of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. On the night of 18 July the Giuseppe Garibaldi was hit by a torpedo launched from the Austrian-Hungarian submarine U-4 off Dubrovnik. She sank in only three minutes, and 53 crew members died in the attack. The rest of the fleet returned to Italy.
The wreck of the Giuseppe Garibaldi is located 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) from Konavoske stijene, south-east of Dubrovnik, Croatia, at the depth of 122 metres (400 ft). The wreck was explored and filmed in August 2009 by a Croatian diving expedition consisting of CCR (Closed Circuit Rebreather) divers and later in November 2009 by an international team of underwater archaeologists.
References[]
- Gardiner, Robert, ed (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 256. ISBN 978-0-87021-907-8. OCLC 12119866.
External links[]
- Kalajdzic, Ahmet (28 August 2009), http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/Mozaik/tabid/80/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/67832/Default.aspx
- Kalajdžić, Ahmet (1 December 2009). "Dubrovnik: na dubini 122 metra otkrivene tajne Giuseppea Garibaldija" (in Croatian). Slobodna Dalmacija. http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/Mozaik/tabid/80/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/81450/Default.aspx. Retrieved 2009-12-01.
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