Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian aircraft carrier, the first through-deck aviation ship ever built for the Italian Navy, and the first Italian ship built to operate fixed-wing aircraft. Although she
Giuseppe Garibaldi in 2004
SH-3 Sea King on deck
A Marina Militare TAV-8B Harrier II aboard Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi and the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman operate near each other in the Atlantic Ocean while participating in Majestic Eagle 2004, a multinational war exercise conducted off the coast of Morocco
Cavour is an Italian aircraft carrier launched in 2004. It is the flagship of the Italian Navy.
Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi
…and aircraft interdiction in Afghanistan. In 2009 Giuseppe Garibaldi was replaced as the flagship of the Italian Navy by the new and larger carrier Cavour. Participating in the 2011 military intervention in Libya after the transfer of authority to NATO and the decision to participate in strike air-ground…
Cavour
Cavour (foreground) operating with Harry S. Truman (middle) and Charles de Gaulle (background) in the Gulf of Oman, 2014
Cavour maneuvering in the Gulf of Naples