The Giuseppe Garibaldi-class cruisers were a class of ten armoured cruisers built in Italy in the 1890s and the first decade of the 20th century. The ships were built for both the Royal Italian Navy and for export. With the class being named for Italian unifier and nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Kasuga in 1900
Right elevation and deck plan as depicted in Brassey's Naval Annual 1902
Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon
ARA Garibaldi
Japanese cruiser Nisshin
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Nisshin (日進), also transliterated as Nissin, was a Kasuga-class armored cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, built in the first decade of the 20th century by Gio. Ansaldo & C., Sestri Ponente, Italy, where the type was known as the Giuseppe Garibaldi class. The ship was originally ordered by the Royal Italian Navy in 1901 as San Rocco and sold the next year to the Argentine Navy who renamed her Mariano Moreno during the Argentine–Chilean naval arms race, but the lessening of tensions with Chile and financial pressures caused the Argentinians to sell her before delivery. At that time tensions between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire were rising, and the ship was offered to both sides before she was purchased by the Japanese.
Nisshin at Malta with two surrendered U-boats, 1919
Right elevation and deck plan of the Kasuga-class cruisers from Brassey's Naval Annual 1906
A postcard of Nisshin, early 1904
The forward turret and superstructure after the Battle of Tsushima