Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi (1899)

Giuseppe Garibaldi was the lead ship of the Giuseppe Garibaldi-class of armoured cruisers of Italy's Regia Marina. The ship was launched on 29 June 1899.

During the Italo-Turkish War she served in Ottoman waters off Libya, the Aegean and the Levant. The cruiser was the flagship of Admiral Paolo Thaon di Revel in the campaigns of Tripoli, Tobruk, in Syria and in the Dardanelles. On 24 February 1912, together with her sister Francesco Ferruccio, she sank the Turkish gunboat Avnillah at the Battle of Beirut.

On 17 July 1915, a group of battleships commanded by Rear-Admiral Eugenio Trifari, who sailed on the Giuseppe Garibaldi, started a mission aimed at shelling the railway connection between Sarajevo and the Bay of Kotor, an important base of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. On the night of 18 July the Giuseppe Garibaldi was hit by a torpedo launched from the Austrian-Hungarian submarine SMU U-4 (Austria-Hungary) off Dubrovnik. She sank in only three minutes, and 53 crew members died in the attack. The rest of the fleet returned to Italy.

The wreck of the Giuseppe Garibaldi  is located 5 nmi from Konavoske stijene, south-east of Dubrovnik, Croatia, at the depth of 122 m. The wreck was explored and filmed in August 2009 by a Croatian diving expedition consisting of CCR (Closed Circuit Rebreather) divers and later in November 2009 by an international team of underwater archaeologists.