Argentine Navy — Cruiser class
Giuseppe Garibaldi-class cruiser
Giuseppe Garibaldi
The class in numbers
- 11 Planned
- 10 Completed
- 1 Cancelled
- 3 Lost
- 7 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Argentine Navy
- Built
- 1895–1904
- In commission
- 1896–1954
- Preceded by
- Vettor Pisani-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Pisa-class cruiser
- Builders
- Gio. Ansaldo & C.
- Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando
- Subclasses
- Garibaldi; Giuseppe Garibaldi
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 6,732 long tons (6,840 t)
- Length
- 111.73 m (366.6 ft) OA
- Speed
- 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
- Complement
- 555
- Main gun
- 254 mm (10 in)
- Armament
- 2 gun turrets, each with
- 1 × 10 in gun or 2 × 8 in guns
- 10–14 × single 6 in guns
- 0–6 × single 120 mm guns
- 10 × single 3 in guns
- 6 × single 47 mm guns
- 4 × single 17.7 in torpedo tubes
Roster
Holding 1 of the 10 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARA Pueyrredón | 1897 | Scrapped 1957 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Giuseppe Garibaldi-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.