italian cruiser giuseppe garibaldi (1933)

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aid down:	1933
aunched:	21 April, 1936
ommissioned:	1937
ecommissioned:
econstructed:	1953
ate:	reconstructed
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isplacement:	11,350 tons standard, 11,735 tons full load
ength:	171.1 - 187 m
eam:	18.9 m
raught:	6.9 m
ropulsion:	6 boilers, 2 shafts, 100,000 hp
peed:	34 knots (62 km/h)
ange:	4,125 miles at 13 knots
omplement:	640
rmament:	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
ircraft:	4
rotection:	max 140 mm (vertical) 40 mm (horizontal)

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1933) was an Italian Duca degli Abruzzi class light cruiser, that served Regia Marina during World War II.

Actions

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

After the armistice (8 September 1943), it operated in the Atlantic ocean together with Allied ships. In 1953, Giuseppe Garibaldi was converted into a guided missile cruiser (see Giuseppe Garibaldi (1957)).

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