A Hero has come home....

[LLogann]

I'm sure this will get moved to O'Club, or some other place that we don't read but I couldn't help but share with you some of this beautiful lady coming back to anchor at her home station... W45th st.  NYC   

CVS-11, the USS Intrepid...

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Essex class carrier commissioned in 1943, decommissioned in 1974 and she was the first carrier to launch an aircraft using the steam catapult (1954)!  Served in the Pacific theater until the end of the war!  Famous for the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Spent the last 2 years in Bayonne, NJ & Staten Island, NY being renovated and refurbished.  Today I took a 2 hour lunch to hang out with her for a little while while the tugs brought her up the Hudson at a determined 2 knots.

<SALUTE>

[pipz]

Thanks for posting the pictures.Looks like they did a good job on it.

Pipz

[Spikes]

Wow, very nice pics!

[uptown]

I always regreted not joining the Navy. Choose Marines instead. When I was a kid I used to watch those flat tops sailing out of Norfolk. My grandpa and dad used to build and repair them. Very nice shots. Makes me wish I were there.

[mbailey]

Now thats a pretty lady   

[007Rusty]

                                   

[LLogann]

Your paycheck came from the US Navy my brother, my crazy brother!!!!!!!!!!   

I always regreted not joining the Navy. Choose Marines instead. When I was a kid I used to watch those flat tops sailing out of Norfolk. My grandpa and dad used to build and repair them. Very nice shots. Makes me wish I were there.

I'd be dead without the USMC.... And I've never been in service!

Semper Fi!  You guys are the salt of this Earth!

And pardon the name of my host please!

[titanic3]

30 minute drive from the Entrepid... maybe I'll post some pics on here when I get the chance.

[Obie303]

I always regreted not joining the Navy. Choose Marines instead. When I was a kid I used to watch those flat tops sailing out of Norfolk. My grandpa and dad used to build and repair them. Very nice shots. Makes me wish I were there.

Blasphemy!  I guess you're a "retired" marine too?

Semper Fi!

Nice pictures.  Thanks for posting.

[ColKLink]

Won't our senoir drill instuctors, come and castrate us, if we admit we have anything whatsever to do with the navy???? thats the impression I was left with for the last 30 yrs??? maybe my senoir died by now???? Highly doubt it though <S> nice photos, seen her on tv yesterday, I'd like to get on one once....maybe take a squat in some clean toilets that flush...? (always was on a lst, no hot water, toilets over flowing, well deck a grease pit.ect.

[lowZX14]

Won't our senoir drill instuctors, come and castrate us, if we admit we have anything whatsever to do with the navy???? thats the impression I was left with for the last 30 yrs??? maybe my senoir died by now???? Highly doubt it though <S> nice photos, seen her on tv yesterday, I'd like to get on one once....maybe take a squat in some clean toilets that flush...? (always was on a lst, no hot water, toilets over flowing, well deck a grease pit.ect.

Yes Col. they will.  I constantly "see" my Sr.'s car driving up and down the roads stalking me.   

[lowZX14]

And Semper Fi, Oohrahh, Kill and Stuff!!

[68Wooley]

CVS-11, the USS Intrepid...

Essex class carrier commissioned in 1943, decommissioned in 1974 and she was the first carrier to launch an aircraft using the steam catapult (1954)!  Served in the Pacific theater until the end of the war!  Famous for the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Fantastic pictures of a fine ship with an exceptional history 

However, one small point - Essex may have been the first US carrier to launch an aircraft with a steam catapult, but their use was pioneered by the British during trials aboard HMS Perseus starting in 1949.

[storch]

Thanks for posting that.  great photos too

[BaldEagl]

I've been on the Intrepid several years ago when I lived in NY.  I'd like to see it again after the refurbishing.  I was really impressed with the F6F parked below deck.

If you're ever in NY it's definitely worth the time to go look her over.  They also have several other WWII ships moored there that you can go poke around on.