Uss Intrepid Aircraft Carrier Views
One of my favorite things in New York City is the USS Intrepid, the WWII aircraft carrier that now serves as a museum. I went to a fantastic party on the ship held during Internet World 1998 or 1999, at the top of the last web bubble. More recently, I had a fantastic days with my boys on the ship during a trip to New York two years ago. Now the museumm’s closed, and the ship has departed New York for a refurbishment through Fall 2008.
The Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum is a military and maritime history museum with a collection of museum ships in New York City. It is located at Pier 86 at 46th Street on the West Side of Manhattan. The museum showcases the World War II aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, the submarine USSs Growler, a Concorde SST and a Lockheed A-12 supersonic reconnaissance plane. Additionally on April 12, 2011 The Museum was awarded the Space Shuttle Enterprise[1]. The museum serves as a hub for the annual Fleet Week events. Visiting warships dock at the cruise ship terminals to the north, and events are held on the museum grounds and the deck of the Intrepid.
Intrepid was launched on 26 April 1943 by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia, the fifth Essex-class aircraft carrier to be launched. She was sponsored by the wife of Vice Admiral John H. Hoover. On 16l August 1943, she was commissioned with Captain Thomas L. Sprague in command before heading to the Caribbean for shakedown and training. Intrepid's motto upon setting sail was In Mare In Caelo , which means On the sea, in the sky , or In the sea in Heaven .
The morning of 24 October, an Intrepid plane spotted Admiral Kurita's flagship, Yamato. Two hours later, planes from Intrepid and Cabot braved intense antiaircraft fire to begin a day-long attack on Center Force. Wave after wave followed until by sunset American carrier-based planes had sunk mighty battleship Musashi with her mammoth 18-inch guns and had damaged her sister ship Yamato along with battleships Nagato and Haruna and heavy cruiser Myoko forcing the latter to withdraw.
Uss Intrepid Aircraft Carrier Images
