Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi (1899)

Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian armoured cruiser, the seventh ship of the Giuseppe Garibaldi class built for the Royal Italian Navy in the 1890s, laid down at the Gio. Ansaldo & C. yard at Genoa-Sestri Ponente in 1898 and launched on 29 June 1899. She replaced the lead ship of her class, which had been sold to Argentina. At 111.8 metres long and about 7,350 tonnes at normal load, she was driven by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines fed by 24 coal-fired boilers, reached 19.7 knots on trials, and carried one 254 mm and two 203 mm guns as her main armament. She often served as a flagship, bombarded Tripoli and Beirut during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911 to 1912, sinking an Ottoman ironclad in Beirut harbour, and was sunk by the Austro-Hungarian submarine U-4 in July 1915 with the loss of 53 men. Her wreck, found in 2008, lies upside down at 122 metres off Dubrovnik.