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| Name | Giuseppe Garibaldi |
| Namesake | General Giuseppe Garibaldi |
| Builder | Gio. Ansaldo & C., Genoa-Sestri Ponente |
| Laid down | 8 June 1898 |
| Launched | 29 June 1899 |
| Completed | 1 January 1901 |
| Fate | Sunk by U-4, 18 July 1915 |
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| Class and type | Giuseppe Garibaldi-class armored cruiser |
| Displacement | 7,350 metric tons (7,234 long tons) |
| Length | 111.8 m (366 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 18.2 m (59 ft 9 in) |
| Draft | 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in) |
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| Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Range | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
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Giuseppe Garibaldi was the seventh ship of the Giuseppe Garibaldi class of armored cruisers built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the 1890s. She was built to replace the lead ship of her class, which was sold to Argentina and renamed ARA Garibaldi. The ship often served as a flagship and made several deployments to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant during her career. At the beginning of the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12 she bombarded Tripoli. Giuseppe Garibaldi bombarded Beirut in early 1912 and sank an Ottoman ironclad there. Several months later she bombarded the defenses of the Dardanelles.
The ship spent several months deployed to Albania after the end of the First Balkan War in 1913 to protect Italian interests there. Giuseppe Garibaldi was sunk by an Austro-Hungarian submarine in the Adriatic Sea shortly after Italy declared war on the Central Powers in 1915 with the loss of 53 crewmen. Her wreck was discovered in 2008 and has been examined by underwater archaeologists in subsequent years.