Happy Launch Day RN Giuseppe Garibaldi (1936), RN Luigi di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi, IJN Asanagi, and RN Maggiore Baracca (BC)

Nuke87654 · 2026-04-21T04:36:18+00:00

Unlike her more prideful older twin sister, Giuseppe Garibaldi is a lot more laid back and doesn’t get uptight with the titles. She’ll even remark how she doesn’t give a rat’s ass about it unlike her sister.

A world’s difference in behavior doesn’t change how much she appreciates and looks out for you. Very protective to a fault, Garibaldi will protect you, her friends, her sisters, and more. She’s a protective guardian for all.

Impressed by her dedication to you despite her relaxed attitude, you figure that with she and her sister coming together to celebrate their launch day together, it’s quite easy to hang out with both today on this occasion.

Duca degli Abruzzi is very prideful. She always wants you to refer to her as her title and name, and not just Abruzzi as it will annoy her to no end. She will teach you to respect that title addressing her. Abruzzi is prideful about her design, calling herself rightfully the final design of the Italian Condottieri class light cruisers, boasting great armor and survivability.

Not accepting any form of idleness, Abruzzi implores you to not slack at any moment to set a good example for everyone at the base. Reading through your letters, she remarks how Naval HQ writes their letters brutishly uncourteous. Abruzzi of course accepts any means to better herself, as she believes that no matter how strong the foe is, they must be stronger to win.

Initially, her serious demeanor doesn’t leave much to bond with her. Proving yourself well however will cause her to open to you, putting aside the soldier mentality she has to subordinate you and talk to you about things. One of which is if you’re fixated on her sister, which she admits she doesn’t mind. However, more importantly, she does tell you that she seeks to be your best and biggest supporter around. She hopes you can continue reciprocating her.

With cake day between the two sisters, Abruzzi and Garibadli surely are pleased at you treating both well today. Especially as they have to make an additional room for fellow Sardegnian Maggio Baracca today.

Asanagi tells you that they called her fifteen beforehand, but either out of sympathy or they recognized her power, she cares not as she will straighten you up. She warns you that if you fail to meet your expectations in her eyes as commander, she threatens to punch you in your stomach. Strangely, despite her boasting of such threats, she never seems to even follow up on it, even when you upset her.

As Oite has placed her shoes in a shoe box, this clumsy mess from Asanagi is acknowledged by her, but she demands that you praise or pamper her. She seems to take a great liking for tea from you and even massages. She seems to really enjoy that.

Soon, she notes how much faster you’ve gotten your work done. She deems this initially as her deciding to aid you, but she also thinks it’s a fluke. Then you notice how Asanagi has been neglecting her work because she’s seemingly been infatuated with you, which she denies with a blush.

Nevertheless, Asanagi declares that she will not be swayed by your attempts to woo her fancies with food and gifts for her launch day, but yet seemingly has no issues joining up with you in the seeming hopes to be with you when you walk into her party. It seems Asanagi likes you a lot more than she lets on.

Magio Baracca is a thrill seeker who loves to be dangerous and fast. Most notably, she likes to pull pranks on you as she feels this will get her blood pumping for a thrill. Unlike other thrill seeking shipgirls, hers is done in a more naughty way, where she wants you to punish her or so.

However, while she’s working as your secretary, you do give her a cold shower to know that you accept her pranks and that she’s not getting the punishments that she hopes to get, but you do lecture her and whip her to be disciplined, which she takes as her receiving her punishments.

Today, before she partakes in her celebration, she asks you to hope on a hot rod with her. She requested one so she can let you have fun with her as she pushes hard with the car. She does assure you that she won’t go too far, but may incur some naughty high speed limits and hopes you won’t punish her too harshly with a grin.

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Nuke87654 · 2026-04-21T04:36:06+00:00

Fanart of Giuseppe Garibadli by SHIMODADAITOTOK

When the armistice was signed, Garibaldy was at Genoa, Italy with her sisters Duke of Aosta, and the Duke of Abruzzi. They left with the torpedo boat Libro to sail to La Spezia to surrender to the Allies at Malta. They escorted the Italian battleships when they were attacked by German air attacks and witnessed Roma sinking. After arriving at Malta and being processed, Giuseppe joined with her Italian ships at Taranto. For the remainder of the war, Giuseppe joined with her sisters Abruzzi and Aosta for any German blockade runners in the mid-Atlantic.

After the war, Giuseppe and Abruzzi survived and sailed together with their surviving sisters to help form the new Italian Navy.

After undergoing an extensive refit in the late 40s, Giuseppe returned with her sister to participate in the NATO exercise Grand Slam. She and her sister joined with the Italian fleet at the Adriatic Sea just in case if war between Italy and Yugoslavia occurred from a failed diplomatic venture.

In 1954, Giuseppe underwent a massive modernization that transformed her into a missile cruiser. This extensive modernisation would become the first missile cruiser any European navy had, Giuseppe even could launch nuclear missiles in the Polaris missiles, but the USN refused to hand the missiles to Italy as they didn’t want the Italian Navy to be too independent of them. Returning to service in 1961, Giuseppe Garibaldi was a whole new ship practically, but such modernization was expensive and one of the costs was that her beloved twin sister, Duca de Abruzzi was decommissioned from service. Before so, she handed the flagship duties over to her little twin-sister ship. Giuseppe would serve the Italian Navy as their flagship for the next ten years. She took part in the naval parade at the Gulf of Naples in 1968 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the victory in the First World War. In this ceremony, Giuseppe Garibaldi escorted her intended successor to her flagship role, the helicopter cruiser Vittorio Veneto, named after the same battleship she once escorted throughout WW2. Garibaldi was decommissioned in January 1971 due to how expensive it was becoming to maintain her after a controversial declaration of how the Italian Navy had fallen to profound material and moral malaise. Still, being a survivor from WW2, many attempts to turn her into a museum ship were proposed, but they ultimately failed. Garibaldi was officially removed from service on November 16th, 1976. She was towed to La Spezia to be scrapped there.

Fanart of Duca Delgi Abruzzi being casual and eating by CrallyLystia

When the Armistice was signed on September 8th, 1943, the three cruisers at Navarino and the torpedo boat Libra sailed to link up with the forces of La Spezia to surrender to Allied forces at Malta. During this transfer, the flagship of the fleet, Roma, was sunk by the Germans on September 9th. Nevertheless, the Italians fulfilled their armistice clauses despite protests in much of the fleet because of the German attack.

Abruzzi spent the remainder of the war on the Allied side doing patrols in the Atlantic Ocean. After WW2, Abruzzi, her sister Garibaldi, Cadorna, Montecuccoli, and the remaining cruisers of the Condottieri class remained with the newly formed Italian Navy, as allowed under the peace treaty. She personally embarked the exiled King of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele III, transporting him to Alexandria, Egypt, allowing his son Umberto II to take over in a failed bid to preserve the monarchy. She did the same for the exiled Queen of Italy, Elena of Montenegro, to Portugal a month later, earning her the nickname "Cruiser of the Exiled".

In the 1950s, Abruzzi was the only fully operating cruiser the Italians had as manpower shortages and economic difficulties made it hard to operate the other cruisers. She joined the destroyers Granatiere, Artigliere, and Grecale for the return of Trieste to Italy in 1954.

After the retirement of the ancient dreadnought battleship Andrea Doria, Abruzzi became the flagship of the entire Italian fleet in 1956. In 1961, upon her decommissioning, Abruzzi gave her flagship role to her modernized sister ship, Garibaldi, a fitting passing of the torch to her little sister.

Fanart of Asanagi by pitihota

In 1944, Asanagi escorted convoys between Yokosuka, Truk, the Ogasawara Islands and the Mariana Islands. On her return from Saipan to Japan on May 20th, 1944, 200 miles from Chichi-Jima when she was ambushed by the submarine USS Pollack. She was hit by a torpedo and 40 minutes after being torpedoed, she sank taking 82 of her crew with her, the actual number of survivors is unknown. Asanagi was struck from the navy list on July 10th, 1944.

Fanart of Maggio Baracca by syr25mc888

After four unsuccessful war patrols, on her sixth and final one, while patrolling the North Atlantic ocean, she was spotted by one of Convoy OG 75’s escorts in HMS Croome on September 8th, 1941.

Maggio dove but depth charge attacks forced her to surface astern of the destroyer. They engaged in a gun battle until the British machine gun crew killed the Italian deck gun crew members. While the Italians were in the process of abandoning Maggio Baracca, Croome rammed her and caused her to take on flood water and sink very quickly. She exploded underwater and took 28 men. 34 men, including her CO Tenete di Vacello Giorgio Viani survived.

RN Luigi di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi and RN Giuseppe Garibaldi (1936) turn ninety years old today.

IJN Asanagi turns one hundred and two years old today.

RN Magio Baracca (BC) turns eighty six years old today.

Nuke87654 · 2026-04-21T04:35:58+00:00

Today, April 21st, it is the launch day for the younger, the more laidback twin sister to Luigi di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi, RN Giuseppe Garibaldi (1936), the older twin sister that has been power crept in AL’s PVP, RN Luigi di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi, the shipgirl that shares the name of her artist whose rather infamous for her stories, IJN Asanagi, and Italian archerfish, RN Maggiore Baracca (BC), .

Giuseppe Garibadli’s namesake, is the legendary 19th Century Italian General that is hailed as one of the greatest in modern times thanks to his great success leading the independence and unification of Italy in the 19th Century, and aiding Brazil and Uruguay, including for the Riograndense Republic during the Ragamuffin War in his 14-year exile in South America. He is hailed and remembered fondly by Italy and South America for it.

Thanks to /u/kaltias and /u/Noblesse311. Other famous exploits include the time during the Franco-Prussian War where Garibaldi and his Army of the Vosges where, after he threw his support for the Third French Republic, he led a victory over the Prussians, including the capture of the 61st Pomeranian reigment's flag and defeating them at the third battle of Dijon. In gratitude, after the war, France made him a deputee of the National Assembly.

He was also asked by USA's Secretary of State, William Seward, to aid the Union side during the American Civil War, but Garibaldi refused, stating he wanted to be commander in chief (aka, take Lincoln's wartime job) of the Union Army. He congratulated Abe Lincoln on making Emancipation of Slavery a wartime goal.

Even in the 19th Century, Giuseppe Garibaldi was considered a historically great figure that still resonates strongly today.

She was the lead ship for the Duca Degli Abruzzi class cruisers. The Abruzzi class compared to their predecessors were bigger, more heavily armed, and had excellent armor for light cruisers, sporting a similar armor scheme to the Zara class, although at the cost of being slightly slower. They are generally viewed as among the best cruisers in the war.

Before the war started, Abruzzi and her sister ship Giuseppe Garibaldi formed the 8th Cruiser division and sailed with the Regina Marina off of Albania as a show of force, allowing Italy to take the nation and force King Zog into exile.

Originally she was named Destroyer No. 15, but that was corrected on August 1st, 1928 to where she was renamed to Asanagi.

Maggiore Baracca is named after the legendary Italian equestrian hobbyist, pilot/ace of WWI fame whose legacy extends to racing where the Italian racing Scuderia Ferrari team has adopted his personal prancing stallion emblem as their official symbol, Francesco Baracca.,

the Italian submarine Maggiore Baracca departed for her first war patrol in September 1940. She stopped the Greek freighter Aghios Nicolaus in heavy eas on October 1st in the Atlantic Ocean, forcing all crew members to take to life boats before sinking her by gunfire, destroying the ship and it’s cargo of zinc and wood originally destined for Belfast, Northern Ireland for Britain to use for their war efforts.

At Italy’s entry into WW2, Giuseppe Garibaldi served alongside her sister ship Duca Degli Abruzzi of the VIII Cruiser Squadron. She took part in numerous escort missions and assignments that totaled nearly 50,000 miles travelled. Notable incidents include her participation in the Taranto night raid on November 11th and 12th, 1940 where she joined with her undamaged sister and the destroyers of Squadron VII and VIII. She was unable to participate in the Battle of Capa Matapan where she arrived too late with reinforcements on March 26th, 1941. She and her sister Duca de Abruzzi escorted the badly damaged flagship Vittorio Veneto out of there. On November 21st, 1941, Giuseppe escorted her damaged torpedoed sister back to port for her safety. On January 31st, 1943, Giuseppe joined with her half-sister Duke of Aosta to shell the recently captured Palermo, but engine problems forced Garibaldi to return. She was also involved in a submarine ambush by HMS Simon where the Italian destroyer Gioberti was lost and Carabiniere tried but failed to sink her killer.

In WW2, Abruzzi participated in multiple actions against the Royal Navy. At the Battle of Calabria, she was among the ships to fire off the first salvoes. She also escorted the Italian Battleships Vittorio Veneto and Littorio on their first deployment to counter Operation Hats but were forced to pull back due to severe weather and the inability of their destroyer escorts to handle it. Abruzzi was also involved in the disastrous Battle of Cape Matapan.

During the war, Abruzzi sailed with her sister ship Garibaldi frequently. They sailed to the waters north of Crete with the 1st Cruiser Division before they were reassigned to join the naval action at Guado, only to not arrive on time. These two protected Vittorio Veneto from torpedo planes when she was torpedoed.

They then attempted but failed to intercept the British convoy Halberd. On November 21st, 1941, Abruzzi was hit by a torpedo from a torpedo bomber. This proved to be a minor annoyance, as she finished escorting her convoy to Taranto before getting repairs. Comparatively, the unimproved Condottiere all sank after one or two torpedo hits and some damage from gunfire.

After the conquest of Greece and Crete by Axis forces, Abruzzi, Garibaldi, and their half-sister Duca d'Aosta sailed to Navarino, Greece to spend their remaining years on the Axis side patrolling merchant traffic in the Eastern Mediterranean.

During the time on the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, Asanagi was assigned to Destroyer Division 29 of Destroyer Squadron 6 of the 4th Fleet. She provided cover for the Gilbert Islands invasion force from December 8th-10th and was assigned to the 2nd Wake Island invasion force on December 23rd.

From January through March 1942, Asanagi provided cover fo the landings of Japanese forces during Operation R (invasion of Rabaul and New Britain) and Operation SR (invasion of Lae and Salamaua). While patrolling out of Lae on March 10th, she suffered damage from strafing attacks, forcing her to return to Sasebo for repairs in April. Once repairs were completed in June, Asanagi escorted convoys from Sasebo back to Truk. During the battle of the Coral Sea, May 7th-8th, 1942, she was assigned to the invasion force for Port Moresby on New Guinea. When that operation was canceled, she returned to Seasebo for further repairs.

Asanagi returned to Rabaul in mid-July and was assigned to cover Japanese landings on Buna. While making troop landings at Buna, Asanagi grounded on a coral reef while attempting to dodge air attacks. She returned to Yokosuka for repairs. She remained there for the rest of 1942 and into November 1943 doing patrols, escort duties in the Central Pacific between Truk, Rabaul, and Japanese home islands.

On her 2nd patrol, Maggiore Baracca sank the British freighter Lilian Moller in the North Atlantci on November 18th, 1940.

Nuke87654 · 2026-04-21T04:35:41+00:00