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| Name | Giuseppe Miraglia |
| Builder | Regio Arsenale della Spezia |
| Laid down | 5 March 1921 |
| Launched | 20 December 1923 |
| Commissioned | 1 November 1927 |
| Stricken | 15 July 1950 |
| Fate | Scrapped |
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| Class and type | seaplane tender |
| Displacement | list error: <br /> list (help) 5,400 tonnes normal 5,913 tonnes full |
| Length | 121.22 m |
| Beam | 14.99 m |
| Draught | 5.82 m |
| Propulsion | 2 Parsons steam turbines with 8 Yarrow boilers, 2 shafts, 16,700 shp |
| Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h) |
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| Aircraft carried | 17 seaplanes |
| Aviation facilities | 2 catapults |
Giuseppe Miraglia was an Italian seaplane carrier.
History
Giuseppe Miraglia was laid down in 1921 as the train ferry Citta de Messina, but was acquired by the Regia Marina soon after her launch in 1923. Works to convert her into a seaplane carrier began in 1925, and was commissioned in 1927.
Giuseppe Miraglia participated in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War and the Spanish Civil War. During World War II, after surviving the Battle of Taranto, she was employed in the Mediterranean theatre. After the Armistice she sailed (along with much of the Italian fleet) to Malta for internment.
After the War Giuseppe Miraglia was used to repatriate Italian prisoners-of-war, then spent the rest of her career as a barrack ship and workshop at Taranto until her scrapping in 1950.
Aircraft facilities
Giuseppe Miraglia could carry some 17 seaplanes (originally Macchi M.18, later IMAM Ro.43), and was equipped with two catapults. Seaplanes could be retrieved by means of large doors and cranes at the sides of the hangar.