Intrepid (CVS 11) - Naval Cruise Book

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W? -'fy C. fri r' 'I s '5i'iRilW vXe -53 -ng pw 4 T WNFR. Tripolifon Memorial of firsT USS lNTl?El3lD, Annapolis, Maryland. hey aaiclaly and aaieTly CUT down rrTosT oi The opposiTion, and Those who were leTT alive were driven over The side. lTloT a single shoT was Tired, and TwenTy minaTes laTer, Decamr and his men were hack aboard ENTQEDT while The Tlames from The PHILADELPHIA liT The harbor. When They were Clear oT The burning ship all hands sTopped, gaye Three Cheers To Their own handi Tr.T. ark, a' i 'N made Tor The open seo aT Top speed.Manning The sweeps as well as relying on llNllRFl3llTs sails, Thex zmwzwegxeroed To avoid The Tire of The l'ripoliTan Cruisers, gan hoaTs, and shore haTTeries wlrwose crews iinallx 'ealiied v.ha+ ' of happened. Uecahirls ToTal casaahies amoanTed To only one man, slighTIy wounded . lNllQl1PIP had me Hale T rough her TopgallanT sail. While a maior ohsTaCle To viCTory had been removed, The war had noT ended, and lNlTQlfisllP was Qalfei u , again. ln The hope ThaT a Tremendous explosion in The harhor would hring The xxar To a speedx gem lxisiuf lm sTroying lripoliTan shipping, and shaTTering The iorT and The Tu-Tm, lNllQl'fllllT was aaaie erxlvre. T 7' T rlarhor. This Time on ii minion ol inTi,nTional si,lT k,lf.C.lf'l,Ik Iron, elk was lnaili ii T.: T ls T . lx N T CXQJ ,djs ,., CK., ,. i , , N Ng ,T 1. ixi T., K ix X Kiki,

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Qrigin of INTIQEPID Tradition SUV? 0 SIWIP I5 Cvfivvlved of as a living Thing, and seafaring men have always considered iT as such, she musf l-x N f I3 - w -. - c , R4 , ' -s V9Q0'slMl 05 M Pfwlklll NOT Only of The Uaffsrnen who builT her, The officers and men who man her, buT of her oncesnw as well. The predecessors of a ship lend To her The name which she bears, and around iT are buiIT The Tradifions, regulaTions and records which every subsequenT ship of ThaT name musf equal, if noT excel. The name INTREPIP firsr appears in American Naval hisTory, af The very beginnings of our counTry's sea power, during The TripoliTan War, ISOI-ISGS. IT was given To a 60 Ton keTch, called The Masfico, capfured from The Tripoli- Tans. She had originally been builr as a bomb keTch by France in U98 for NapoIeon's EgypTian ExpediTion, and was sold To The Bashaw of Tripoli afTer iTs failure. She was capTured by The American schooner, ENTERPRISE, in December of ISO3, as she was aTTempTing To run The American blockade. The name INTREPID was very probably given To This newly capTured vessel because of The mission ThaT was To be assigned To her, since iT is synonymous wiTh courageous , fearless , bold , and undciunTed , These Qualifies would be needed To slip inTo Tripoli Bay under The guns of The Bashaw's forfgarouse no suspicion among all The Tripoliron ships moored in The harbor, sink The 36 gun frigaTe, Pl-IILADELPI-IIA, an American shipThaT had fallen inTo The hands of The Tripoliron piraTes, which now posed a Threaf To our own forces and, compleTely unescorTed, escape. IT was hoped by Commodore Preble, The Commander of The American blockade fleeT, and LT STephan DecaTur, Jr., C211 years of agel who ioinTIy conceived of The plan wiTh Preble, ThaT INTREPID, wiTh her Middle EasTern rigging would noT arouse suspicion among The TripoIiTans when she enTered Their harbor. DecaTur, who was Commander of The frigaTe ENTERPRISE, volunTeered To command INTREPID on This mission and when he asked for volunTeers To go along wiTh him, every officer and man aboard his ship sTepped forward. Five officers and sixTy-Two men were chosen from ENTERPRISE and five officers from Admiral Preble's flagship, CONSTITU- Tl0N.+ Disguised as Turks and carefully rehearsed in Their mission, lNTREPlD's crew waiTed ouT a six day gale be- fore beginning Their Task...a Task whose acco mplishmenT was To be called The mosT bold and daring acT of The age by The BriTish Admiral, Lord Nelson. On The nighT of February lo, l8O-41, INTREPID slipped quieTIy and un- obTrusively inTo Tripoli I-larbor. When she was righf under PFIILADELPI-llA's guns she was challenged, buT De- caTur's Turkish speaking pilor replied by saying ThaT They were blockade runners who had IosT Their anchors in The sTorm, and wanTed To Tie up alongside The frigaTe. The Tripolifans obligingly senT ouT a boaT wiTh a line, while INTREPID senT her own boaT wiTh anofher. IT was noT unTiI INTREPID was firmly secured, fore and afT, To Pl'lILA- DELPI-IIA ThaT The Turks comprehended whaT was happening. Before They could sound The alarm, DecaTur and his men, armed wiTh curlasses, were aboard. A ong The firsr Ten IIITREPID officers was LieuTenanT J. Lawrence, a name ThaT by coincidence was To ap- JT leair +liree more Times among Il'ITRFPllU's lisT of officers---as The name of her decoraTed repair parTy of- f in l91lll, and Tffice again af, The name of her preseni skipper, presenTly as he commands her, and previously MA, when lf: f r rfariflerl VT-IU and floff Torpedo planes from her decks. Il

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