Key facts
- Name
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Namesake
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Builder
- Fincantieri , Monafalcone Shipyard, Monfalcone ( Gorizia )
- Cost
- Lire 428 billion (1981) (equivalent to € 903.63 million in 2019)
- Laid down
- 26 March 1981
- Launched
- 11 June 1983
- Commissioned
- 30 September 1985
- Decommissioned
- 1 October 2024
- Home port
- Taranto
- Identification
- Pennant number : 551
- Motto
- Obbedisco ("I Obey")
- Status
- Retired
- Type
- ASW aircraft cruiser / aircraft carrier
- Displacement
- - 10,100 t (9,900 long tons) (standard) - 13,850 t (13,630 long tons) (full load) - 14,150 t (13,930 long tons) (full load, after 2003 MLU)
- Length
- 180.2 m (591 ft)
- Beam
- 33.4 m (110 ft)
- Draught
- 8.2 m (27 ft)
- Propulsion
- - 4 × General Electric/Avio LM2500 gas turbines , 60,400 kW (81,000 hp) - 6 × diesel engine generators Grandi Motori Trieste B230/12, 9,360 kW (12,550 hp) with electric generator Ansaldo-Elettrital, 1,560 kW (2,090 hp) each
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Encyclopedic overview
Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian aircraft carrier, the first through-deck aviation ship ever built for the Italian Navy, and the first Italian ship built to operate fixed-wing aircraft. Although she was widely recognised as a carrier first and foremost, she was officially designated as an aircraft-carrying cruiser.
The ship was equipped with short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft and helicopters. Giuseppe Garibaldi was involved in combat air operations off Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Libya.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Giuseppe Garibaldi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.