Italian cruiser Alberto di Giussano

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Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	29 March 1928
Launched:	27 April 1930
Commissioned:	1 January 1931
Fate:	Sunk
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	6,571 tons standard, 6,954 tons full load
Length:	169.3 m
Beam:	15.5 m
Draught:	5.3 m
Propulsion:	6 Yarrow-Ansaldo boilers, 2 Belluzo turbines, 2 shafts, 95,000 hp
Speed:	37 knots (67 km/h)
Range:	3,800 miles at 18 knots
Complement:	507
Armament:	8 × 152 mm / 53 caliber in 4 dual mountings, 6 × 100 mm / 47 caliber (anti-aircraft), 8 × 37 mm / 54 caliber, 8 × 13.2 mm, 4 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
Aircraft:	2
Protection:	side 20 mm., deck 24 mm., turrets 23 mm.

Alberto di Giussano was an Italian Condottieri class cruiser, which served in the Regia Marina during World War II. She was launched on 27 April 1930 .

Di Giussano participated in the normal peacetime activities of the fleet in the 1930s as a unit of the 2nd Squadron, including service in connection with the Spanish Civil War. On 10 June 1940 she was part of the 4th Cruiser Division, with the 1st Squadron, together with her sister ship Da Barbiano and was present at the Battle of Punta Stilo in July. She carried out a minelaying sortie off Pantelleria in August, and for the rest of the year acted as distant cover on occasions for troop and supply convoys to North Africa.

On 12 December 1941 she left port together with her sister ship Da Barbiano for the battle of Cape Bon. She was hit by a torpedo amidships, bursted into flames and sunk on 13 December 1941, in the Battle of Cape Bon.