italian cruiser lead ship class armored cruisers built 1890s ship served flagship deployments levant career beginning italo turkish war bombarded tripoli bombarded early sank ottoman ironclad months later bombarded defenses dardanelles ship spent months deployed albania end balkan war protect italian interests sunk austro hungarian submarine adriatic_sea shortly italy declared war loss crewmen wreck discovered examined underwater archaeologists subsequent years design description overall length meters beam meters deep draft ship meters displaced metric tons long tons normal load ship powered vertical triple expansion steam engines driving shaft steam coal fired boilers engines rated indicated horsepower designed speed approximately knots mph sea trials september failed reach designed speed reaching knots mph ihp cruising range nautical miles knots mph complement consisted officers enlisted men acting flagship main armament consisted millimeter gun turret forward superstructure millimeter guns twin turret aft millimeter guns comprised secondary armament arranged casemates amidships remaining millimeter guns mounted upper deck millimeter millimeter guns defend torpedo boats fitted single millimeter torpedo tubes ship waterline armour belt maximum thickness millimeters amidships tapered millimeters ends ship conning tower casemates gun turrets protected millimeter armor protective deck armour millimeters thick millimeter guns upper deck protected gun shields millimeters thick construction service named general founders modern italy laid shipyard genoa september launched june conducting preliminary steam trials july tubes boilers burst killing wounding repairs took august completed january july october ship cruised mediterranean making port calls tripoli following year port visits greece fleet maneuvers assigned hostile force blockading ship international expeditionary force occupied november december failed effort force ottoman_empire pay debts european countries timely manner sister ships ship france september participate fleet review president france date deployed levant july june began september flagship 2nd squadron mediterranean_fleet commanded rear admiral ships bombarded tripoli october ship enter harbor conclusion bombardment small landing party entered disabled breech mechanisms fort guns bombardment killed ottoman soldiers severely wounded addition dead civilians october sisters sailed sicily ship january bulk fleet italy bombarded february setting elderly ottoman ironclad fire later entered harbor torpedoed ironclad sinking killing officers enlisted men entry forced torpedo boat credited participating bombardment bombardment killed civilians wounded april bombarded fortifications dardanelles heavily damaging returning italy later month ship began refit lasted mid june included replacing worn guns end balkan war deployed port ensure returned montenegro ottoman_empire protect italian interests city returned home august deploying february march italy declared war flagship 5th commanded based june division bombarded rail lines near modern departed evening july near following morning shortly beginning bombardment struck torpedo starboard near aft boiler rooms fired austro hungarian submarine sank minutes keel crewmen killed remaining rescued destroyers left rescue survivors division immediately retreated avoid attacks wreck upside located coordinates south east croatia depth meters wreck initially located czech expedition death september investigation wreck group lacked permits dive protected war grave caused expelled country follow croatian expedition explored filmed wreck august closed circuit technology official expeditions november wreck international team underwater archaeologists
Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi (1899)