Garibaldi

The aircraft-carrying cruiser C551 Garibaldi was the first through-deck ship ever commissioned by the Italian Navy.

Ryan Andrews bought her for scrap value during the Global Community's push for global disarmament, stripped her of weapons, and then sold her back to the Foreman of CATS at a profit, managing to re-register her as a fast cargo ship.

She was deployed in a number of overt and covert operations under the captaincy of Cpt. A. K. Steele (no relation to Rayford Steele), the last British Hong Kong harbormaster before the city was absorbed by the United Asian States.

Due to the Italian Navy's limited budget and focus on humanitarian missions, the Garibaldi was built from the start to be able to be quickly configurable in a variety of roles, including that of hospital ship, which she covered through the first three Trumpet Judgements in order to mitigate the damage.

Due to CATS' inability to procure modern STOVL jets, her aircraft complement consisted of helicopters and Antonov AN-2 biplanes that had a low enough stall speed to be able to take off and land from the relatively small warship.

Note: The stats used for the ship in "Left Beyond" are in fact those of her successor design, C550 Cavour.