Intrepid to Be Renovated

[jacobtowne]

Here's a website with a live camera aboard the Essex-class carrier USS Intrepid, which is being towed from her berth today.

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/intrepid/



And a link to an AP story.

http://apnews.myway.com//article/200...D8L7KQTG0.html


JT

[von Poop]

That's a hell of a museum.
I thought at first she was being restored as a current ship until I clocked the odd collection of aircraft parked on top of her.
Shame the museum site's offline for the mo, I'll look forward to a report once someone's visited her?
Cheers,
Adam,

[jacobtowne]

It's stuck, and the tide's going out, so the move has been cancelled for now.



JT

[52nd Airborne]

Every time I've been to New York, I always say I'm going visit the Intrepid! But I never get round to it! I keep finding new bars to visit instead!!

[Hawkeye90]

Good article jacobtowne.

[jacobtowne]

Here's the latest update.

Navy to Help Pull Intrepid Out of Mud



Nov 11, 10:41 AM (ET)

(AP) Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch attends a send-off for the USS Intrepid (CV-11) before its...
Full Image NEW YORK (AP) - The Navy will help move the historic aircraft carrier USS Intrepid from its muddy berth in the Hudson River to New Jersey for repairs, officials said Saturday.
The agreement comes after the floating carrier museum refused to budge Monday despite tugboats' attempts to pull it from the mud at its Manhattan pier. The ship has rested in the spot for 24 years.
Under the agreement - hammered out after four days of talks between officials of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and the Pentagon - the Navy will give salvage support to try to free the vessel. That support will fall within guidelines of the Army Corps of Engineers permit issued to the museum for dredging.
Still unknown is when the operation will be finished and the carrier towed to Bayonne, N.J.
"The Intrepid Museum is thankful to the Navy and to the Army Corps of Engineers for the great help they are providing to this effort," Arnold Fisher, the museum chairman, said in a statement.
The Intrepid was at the center of World War II in the Pacific after it was deployed in 1943.
It now serves as a memorial to the armed services, a tourist attraction that draws hundreds of thousands of people a year. It is also equipped to become an emergency operation center for city and federal authorities. The FBI used it as an operation center after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The carrier's refurbishment is to include the opening of more interior spaces to the public, upgrading of exhibits and a bow-to-stern paint job. The pier is also to be rebuilt in the Intrepid's absence.



JT

[Hawkeye90]

I wish that more of the mothball fleet could be preserved. It is a shame that the government is not very willing to preserve the battleships of the past. The reserved Iowa Class battleships will all soon be scraped and whats left of the era of the battleships will be limited to the few ships that have been made museums.


USS Iowa and Winconsin

[jacobtowne]

The reserved Iowa Class battleships will all soon be scraped and whats left of the era of the battleships will be limited to the few ships that have been made museums.

Even Missouri at Ford Island?

JT

[jacobtowne]

Missouri is a museum ship, so perhaps it will be saved. Here's a link.

http://www.ussmissouri.com/

Unfortunately, the fate of Iowa is uncertain, after she was refused a berth in San Francisco.

JT

[Hawkeye90]

The Wisconsin is also museum ship. Being the lead ship of the class, I think its necessary keep the Iowa. I searched online and am happy to say that chances are Iowa is going to become a museum ship in Stockton California.

http://www.ussiowa.org/mbrship/stockton.htm