Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi

	Giuseppe Garibaldi in 2004
History
Italy
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
General characteristics
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;
Speed	30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)+
Range	7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	- 830, of which:; 550 Crew; up to 180 for Fleet Air Arm; up to 100 C4 staff;
Sensors &; processing systems	- Selenia MM/SPS-768 (RAN 3L) long-range radar; - Selenia SPS-774 (RAN-10S) early warning radar; - Hughes AN/SPS-52C early warning, E band radar; - Selenia SPS-702 CORA surface search radar; - 2 × GEM Elettronica SPN-749 navigation radar; - Selenia SPN-728 approach radar; - 3 × Selenia RTN-30X fire control radar, for Albatross/Aspide; - 3 × Selenia RTN-20X fire control radar, for CIWS 40/70 mm; - Raytheon DE 1160 LF hull sonar (replaced by WASS DMS-2000 in 2003); - Selenia CMS SADOC-3; - TACAN Face Standard URN-25;
Electronic warfare; & decoys	- Elettronica Spa SLQ-732 jamming system; - 2 × OTO Melara SCLAR decoy launcher; - AN/SLQ-25 Nixie towed torpedo decoy;
Armament	2 × Mk.29 octuple launcher for Sea Sparrow/Selenia Aspide SAM; 3 × Oto Melara Twin 40L70 DARDO; 2 × 324 mm triple torpedo tubes; 4 × Otomat Mk 2 SSMs (removed in 2003);
Aircraft carried	up to 18; AV-8B Harrier II fighter/bombers; Augusta SH-3D or AgustaWestland AW101 helicopters (ASW, ASH and AEW);
Notes	flight deck is length 174.0 m (570.9 ft) and 30.0 m (98.4 ft) wide

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.