Giuseppe Garibaldi (ship, 1937)

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Garibaldi in Taranto

Ship data flag  Italy Shipyard Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino Keel laying December 28, 1933 Launch April 22, 1936 Commissioning July 13, 1969 Decommissioning 20th February 1971

Ship dimensions and crew length 187 m ( Lüa ) width 18.9 m Draft Max. 6.7 m displacement 11,350 max.   crew 665 men

Machine system machine 2 gear turbines, 6 steam boilers Machine performance 85,000 hp Top speed 30 kn (56 km / h) propeller 2 shafts, 2 three-wing screws

Armament 1 Mk 10 rocket launcher for Terriers 8 Oto Melara guns 76/62 mm 4 silos for Polaris Sensors AA-Radar Frescan AN / SPS-39 ASuW-Radar AN / SPS-6 Navigation: SMA CFL3-C25 Fire control: 5 Selenia SPG 70 (RNT 10X) Argo AN / SPG-55

The Giuseppe Garibaldi was a light cruiser of the Duca degli Abruzzi class . It was launched in 1936, entered service in 1938 and took part in the naval battle of Punta Stilo (July 9, 1940), the Battle of Cape Matapan (March 28, 1941) and other naval battles during World War II . After the armistice of September 8, 1943, the ship operated with allied naval units in the Atlantic .

From 1957 to 1961 the cruiser was completely rebuilt and received a new downsized propulsion system with an output reduced from 100,000 to 85,000 hp, whereby a chimney was omitted. Silos for Polaris missiles were also installed , but for political reasons they were not delivered to Italy after all. Due to its Terrier anti-aircraft missile system, this ship was the first warship of a European Navy to be armed with guided missiles. The cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi remained the flagship of the Italian Navy until its decommissioning in 1971 . In this function it was replaced by the flight deck cruiser Vittorio Veneto . In 1978 the ship was scrapped.

literature

• Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen & Budzbon, Przemysław: Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press 1995. ISBN 1-55750-132-7 .