USS Intrepid - New York City
N 40° 45.880 W 074° 00.047
18T E 584334 N 4513113
Essex class aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CV-11), a ship with long and interesting history, is anchored from 1982 at pier 86 close to the Lincoln Tunnel in Manhattan and serves as seat of Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum....
Waymark Code: WM87ZA
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 02/17/2010
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At prominent location at Manhattan's West embankment (pier 86) you can find one of famous WWII naval ships - Essex class aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CV-11), today is serving as a museum ship...
USS Intrepid (comissioned 16 August 1943) won fame in the Pacific in World War II as the "Fighting I." She survived numerous kamikaze and bomb hits. The carrier fought in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October, 1944. Her combat record includes the sinking of two Japanese battleships and numerous other vessels, as well as the destruction of more than 600 enemy aircraft. Intrepid served three combat tours off Vietnam and twice as NASA Prime Recovery Ship for the manned space program. She was decommissioned in 1974, but was assigned by Congress as the Bicentennial Exposition Ship at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1975-1976.
USS Intrepid embarked on her second career as a sea-air-space museum in New York City in 1982. On her flight deck are more than 30 aircraft representing all of the U.S. armed services as well as British, French and Soviet jet fighters. This collection features an A-12 Blackbird flown by the CIA throughout the Cold War. Permanent and rotating exhibits on Intrepid's hangar deck depict the past, present and future of military technology.