 Giacinto Carini as a minesweeper in the 1950s.
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| History | |
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 Kingdom of Italy | |
| Name | Giacinto Carini |
| Namesake | Giacinto Carini (1821–1880), Italian patriot and politician |
| Builder | Cantieri navali Odero, Sestri Ponente, Kingdom of Italy |
| Laid down | 1 September 1916 |
| Launched | 7 November 1917 |
| Completed | 28 September 1917 |
| Commissioned | 30 November 1917 |
| Identification | Pennant number CA, CR (1917–1954) |
| Motto | Fide fidentia (Trust in Faith) |
| Reclassified | Torpedo boat 1929 |
| Fate | To Italian Republic 1946 |
 Italian Republic | |
| Reclassified | Coastal minesweeper 1953 |
| Identification | Pennant number M 5331 (1954–1958) |
| Stricken | 31 December 1958 |
| Renamed | GM 517 |
| Reclassified | Pontoon |
| Fate | Scrapping began May 1963 |
| Notes | GM 517 served as a training hulk |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 72.5 m (237 ft 10 in) (waterline) |
| Beam | 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in) |
| Draught | 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) |
| Installed power | |
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| Speed | 33.6 knots (62.2 km/h; 38.7 mph) |
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| Complement | 4 officers, 74 non-commissioned officers and sailors |
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Giacinto Carini was an Italian La Masa-class destroyer. Commissioned into service in the Italian Regia Marina ("Royal Navy") in 1917, she served in World War I, participating in the Adriatic campaign. During the interwar period, she took part in operations during the Corfu incident in 1923 and was reclassified as a torpedo boat in 1929. She took part in the Mediterranean campaign of World War II. After the fall of Fascist Italy and the Italian armistice with the Allies in 1943, she switched to the Allied side and operated as a unit of the Italian Co-belligerent Navy until 1945. A part of the Italian Navy (Marina Militare) after the Italian Republic replaced the Kingdom of Italy in 1946, she remained in service during the Cold War and was reclassified as a coastal minesweeper in 1953. Stricken in 1958, she subsequently served as the training hulk GM 517 until scrapped in 1963.