Intrepid (CVS 11) - Naval Cruise Book

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4 X 1 . ' . jif lf? i fi 1 A FW' 1 A .1 Wink few . ,,.. J' . I :im l l ix lg A If ix The third INTREPID was launched on 8 October 51.1 ' - jf .X 1904, at the Mare Island fffalifornial Navy Yard, one f -'Cyl I- Q ff I ,X X I - of two 1800 ton steel sailing vessels built for the 1 F ij, 'ifgft f . Eli ' X training of Navy landsmen and apprentices which she l i rdfit i i i' 'hh is.l9,l:-7 sinwd h i ,'.. '-ff' ' did until 16 August 1907. At this time she was !! -.-L.,??f-:sly fi .: ' i f xi ii' . t tf L placed in service in San Francisco as a receiving i' .2 - 7 7133 1, H 4' ship, and later as a barracks for men of the Pacific ,gi fe ',4x1 A . . . , A ' I 41,1-, ww w 0: .E H - Fleet's F-boats. After 17 years of service, she was fi 1 . , f.,1Zflg!3 'LJ' I f g '- f..-.14 placed out of commission on 30 August 1921 and A 55 I 3' ' A231 ' 3:3 sold on 20 December of that year. lt was with remarkable prescience that the keel of the present INTREPID was laid on 1 De- cember 1941. The whole world was then at war, but the United States was not. Neither was there an immediate need for powerful new warships, but six days later, when the Japanese struck their infamous and crippling blowiat Pearl Harbor, the United States had both problems - the war and the need for new ships. lNTREPlD was an ideal solution. lNTREPID's sister ships, the LEXlNGTON KCV-161, ESSEX CCV-91 and YORKTOWN CCV-101 were already entering or preparing to enter the war. Following the formal champagne christening on 26 April 1943, the final touches were completed and lNTREPID was commissioned on 16 August 1943. Speaking to the crew after the ceremony Captain T. L. Sprague, the ship's new captain, initiated the continuance of lNTREPlD's tradition by saying . . . only in the cool courage and fearless bravery of the present crew, will the heroic and undaunted crews of the past live again. INTREPID then went to the War.