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Title: A Hero has come home....
Post by: LLogann on October 02, 2008, 04:17:22 PM
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   :salute

CVS-11, the USS Intrepid...

(http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/images.php/t2236_Intrepid122.jpg) (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/view.php/2236_Intrepid122.jpg.html). (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/images.php/t2237_Intrepid124.jpg) (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/view.php/2237_Intrepid124.jpg.html). (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/images.php/t2238_Intrepid153.jpg) (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/view.php/2238_Intrepid153.jpg.html). (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/images.php/t2239_Intrepid258.jpg) (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/view.php/2239_Intrepid258.jpg.html). (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/images.php/t2240_Intrepid267.jpg) (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/view.php/2240_Intrepid267.jpg.html)

(http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/images.php/t2250_Intrepid462.jpg) (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/view.php/2250_Intrepid462.jpg.html).(http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/images.php/t2249_Intrepid430.jpg) (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/view.php/2249_Intrepid430.jpg.html).(http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/images.php/t2248_Intrepid412.jpg) (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/view.php/2248_Intrepid412.jpg.html).(http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/images.php/t2247_Intrepid410.jpg) (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/view.php/2247_Intrepid410.jpg.html).(http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/images.php/t2246_Intrepid401.jpg) (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/view.php/2246_Intrepid401.jpg.html)

(http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/images.php/t2245_Intrepid382.jpg) (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/view.php/2245_Intrepid382.jpg.html).(http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/images.php/t2244_Intrepid341.jpg) (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/view.php/2244_Intrepid341.jpg.html).(http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/images.php/t2243_Intrepid300.jpg) (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/view.php/2243_Intrepid300.jpg.html).(http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/images.php/t2242_Intrepid285.jpg) (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/view.php/2242_Intrepid285.jpg.html).(http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/images.php/t2241_Intrepid2672.jpg) (http://www.snapshotgirlz.com/snapshotz/view.php/2241_Intrepid2672.jpg.html)

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>
Title: Re: A Hero has come home....
Post by: pipz on October 02, 2008, 04:26:11 PM
Thanks for posting the pictures.Looks like they did a good job on it.

Pipz
Title: Re: A Hero has come home....
Post by: Spikes on October 02, 2008, 04:28:21 PM
Wow, very nice pics!
Title: Re: A Hero has come home....
Post by: uptown on October 02, 2008, 04:41:56 PM
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. :salute
Title: Re: A Hero has come home....
Post by: mbailey on October 02, 2008, 06:51:40 PM
Now thats a pretty lady   :salute
Title: Re: A Hero has come home....
Post by: 007Rusty on October 02, 2008, 07:38:35 PM
                                   :salute
Title: Re: A Hero has come home....
Post by: LLogann on October 02, 2008, 08:05:36 PM
Your paycheck came from the US Navy my brother, my crazy brother!!!!!!!!!!   :rock
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. :salute


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!


Title: Re: A Hero has come home....
Post by: titanic3 on October 02, 2008, 08:11:53 PM
30 minute drive from the Entrepid... maybe I'll post some pics on here when I get the chance.
Title: Re: A Hero has come home....
Post by: Obie303 on October 03, 2008, 07:33:29 AM
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. :salute

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

Semper Fi!

Nice pictures.  Thanks for posting. :salute
Title: Re: A Hero has come home....
Post by: ColKLink on October 03, 2008, 08:13:40 AM
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.
Title: Re: A Hero has come home....
Post by: lowZX14 on October 03, 2008, 09:49:27 AM
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.   :noid
Title: Re: A Hero has come home....
Post by: lowZX14 on October 03, 2008, 09:53:36 AM
And Semper Fi, Oohrahh, Kill and Stuff!! :salute :rock
Title: Re: A Hero has come home....
Post by: 68Wooley on October 04, 2008, 12:49:47 PM

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  :salute

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.
Title: Re: A Hero has come home....
Post by: storch on October 04, 2008, 05:42:46 PM
Thanks for posting that.  great photos too
Title: Re: A Hero has come home....
Post by: BaldEagl on October 04, 2008, 06:34:58 PM
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.
Title: Re: A Hero has come home....
Post by: SEraider on October 05, 2008, 10:58:37 AM
Good photos