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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.
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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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When commissioned the air- craft carrier had an overall length of 872 feet; and extreme beam of 147 feet, 6 inches; a full load displacement of 36, 380 tons; and accommodations for 360 officers and 3,008 men. The ship was armed with twelve, 5- inch 38-caliber guns and seven- teen quadruple40mm anti-aircraft mounts. The ship had two hy- draulic catapults located forward. The ship ' s four engines and eight boiler drove the ship at a trial speed of 32.7 knots.
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