The wooden steam frigate Giuseppe Garibaldi was laid down in Castellammare di Stabia near Naples in 1858 and, after completion, initially put into service under the name Borbona with the Navy of the Kingdom of Naples . Her sister ships were the Gaeta and the Farnese (later renamed Italia ). On September 6, 1860, she changed sides, submitted to the Piedmont-Sardinia Navy and received the new name. She took part in the fighting in the Gulf of Naples and around Gaeta and bombed fortifications of the Bourbons. In 1861 it was taken over by the newly founded Italian Royal Navy , which used the ship until 1862 in the War of Italian Unification, in 1864 in Tunis to protect the Italian community and in 1866 in the naval battle of Lissa . From 1872 to 1874 the Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed around the world; a second followed from 1879 to 1882. In 1877 she was classified as a corvette . In 1882 she managed to cross the Suez Canal with 135 Italian and Austrian refugees from Egypt on board despite the British blockade. From 1883 the ship was used in Eritrea as a troop transport and hospital ship and in 1893 it was finally converted into a hospital ship named Saati for the Eritrean colonial administration. In 1899 it was canceled.
technical features
The ship, built from Calabrian oak, was 68.2 meters long and displaced 3,780 tons. In addition to an English steam engine with a horizontal cylinder, which developed 1041 hp, the frigate had a sail area of 2725 square meters. She reached a speed of 10 to 11 knots. The ship was armed with eight 160-pounders, twelve 72-pounders (210-mm cannons), 26 68-pounders (203 mm) in gun ports and on deck, and four boat cannons (other sources report different equipment). This armament was reduced in 1866; partly new guns were installed. The crew numbered 658 men.
literature
Riccardo Magrini: Ships. Sailing ships, warships, passenger and merchant ships. Fränkisch-Crumbach 2016, ISBN 978-3-8468-0022-5 , p. 42.
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