Intrepid (CVS 11) - Naval Cruise Book

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And The Third The third INTREPID was launched by Mare Island Navy Yard October 8, 1904 under the sponsorship of Miss Helen de Young. Commissioned August 16, 1907, Commander Capehart took command. The overall length was 211 feet, 7 inches, and she had a complement of 16 officers and 120 men. She served as the receiving ship for the Yerba Buena Training Station, San Francisco, and served as receiving ship at Mare Island Navy Yard. She was decommissioned October 15. She was recommissioned in 1915 for use as a barracks for the men of submarines F-l through F-4 of the Pacific Fleet. In 1920 she again became a receiving ship for Mare Island Navy Yard. She was again decommissioned August 30, 1921 and sold. She was struck from the Navy List May 8, 1946.

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The Second I j The second INTREPID was launched by the Boston Navy yard March 5, 1874, and com- missioned July 31st. Comman- der Augustus P. Cook, USN, was commanding officer. INTREPID was 170 feet, 3 inches long, and was armed with four 24 pounder howit- zers. The experimental steam torpedo ram departed Boston August 3, and finally arrived at the New York Navy Yard September 1st. The following two months were torpedo trials along Altantic Coast. Sh commissioned Oct recommissioned fo time, and d August of 1882. lecommissic repid votda to e North ivas(| de- er 30th, i| short d again )1

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M ♦ The Fighting I... Six days before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, the keel of USS INTREPID (CV-11) was laid in a concrete graving dock at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Va. Seventeen months later, a $44 million air- craft carrier the length of three football fields, stood ready for her initial plunge. Mrs. John Howard Hoover, wife of Vice Admiral Hoover, and members of christening cermony.