Intrepid (CVS 11) - Naval Cruise Book

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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.

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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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A sudsy smash rewards her third try. Is Born INTREPID ' s official sponsor was Mrs. John Hoover, wife of Vice Admiral Hoover. Aboard a small barge, which sized up like a matchbox along- side the colossal carrier hull, Mrs. Hoover swung twice but failed to break the traditional champagne bottle. A sudsy smash rewarded her third try. Tugs soon began the slow task of towing INTREPID to a fitting-out berth.