Giuseppe Garibaldi
R 551
1990
(Hai 225a)
- Class: Giuseppe Garibaldi - 1 light aircraft carrier of 1978
- Displacement: 13,850 tons
- Dimensions: 591' (oa) x 110' x 24.5'
- Machinery: 4 LM 2500 gas turbines; 82,000 hp; 2 shaft
- Speed: 30 knots
- Guns: 3 x Oto Melara twin 40L70 DARDO
- Aircraft: 16 AV-8B Harrier VTOL aircraft or 18 Agusta helicopters or a mix
- Complement: 830
- Builder: CRDA, Fincantieri
- Keel Laid: 8 Jun 1981
- Launched: 11 Jun 1983
- Commissioned: 30 Sep 1985
- Notes: 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 is widely recognised as a carrier first and foremost, she is officially designated as an aircraft-carrying cruiser. She was involved in combat air operations off Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Libya.
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