Sunday, April 14, 2013

Unidentified Argentinian Garibaldi-class armoured cruiser (probably General Garibaldi, see comments below).


Class details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Garibaldi_class_cruisers

4 comments:

  1. She's not the Cristóbal Colón; she's one of the ships of Argentina.
    The Colón never mounted her main guns as showed in photo

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  2. Thanks for the info. I'll look into this and amend the caption accordingly. :)

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  3. You're wellcome.
    I think the ship is ARA "General Garibaldi" one of three ships armed with two Armstrong 254/45 mm (10"/45); the "Garibaldi" mounted 10 152/45 mm (6"/45) too and the other 2 ships armed with 10" guns, "Generay Pueyrredon" and "General Belgrano", were armed with 14 152/45 mm (6"/45); the fourth, "General San Martín" was armed with 4 203/45 mm (8"/45)

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  4. Once again, thanks for the info. :)

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