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.