“Intrepid” ( eng. USS Intrepid (CV / CVA / CVS-11) ), also known as “Combat“ I “” . The name of the aircraft carrier is translated into Russian as Undaunted . This is the fourth ship of the U.S. Navy , which bore a similar name.
| Intrepid | |
|---|---|
| USS Intrepid (CV / CVA / CVS-11) | |
 Aircraft carrier "Intrepid" in the Philippine Sea in 1944 | |
| Service | |
 USA | |
| Class and type of vessel | Essex Aircraft Carrier |
| Organization |  US Navy |
| Manufacturer | Newport news shipbuilding |
| Construction started | December 1, 1941 |
| Launched | April 26, 1943 |
| Commissioned | August 16, 1943 |
| Withdrawn from the fleet | March 15, 1974 |
| Status | Museum ship |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 23 785 t dry 2 669 t standard 34 881 t full |
| Length | 265.9 m |
| Width | 45.0 m |
| Height | 24.9 m from keel to flight deck |
| Draft | 8.4 m with full displacement |
| Reservation | belt: 64-102 mm traverses: 102 mm deck: 64 + 37 mm tiller compartment: 64-102 mm conning tower roof: 37 mm cable and elevator housings: 25–64 mm |
| Engines | 8 water - tube boilers of the Babcock-Wilcox type 4 turbines of the Westinghouse type |
| Power | 150 000 h.p. |
| Mover | four |
| Speed | 33 knots maximum |
| Sailing range | 15,000 miles at 15 knots |
| Crew | staffing 2,386 people, including 215 officers, actually up to 3,106 people, including 226 officers |
| Armament | |
| Radar weapons | Radar detection of air targets SK and SC-2 , 2 radar detection of surface targets SG |
| Flak | 6x2 127 mm / 38 Mk. 12 8x4 40 mm Bofors Mk.2 46x1 20 mm Oerlikon Mk.4 |
| Aviation group | 91-103 aircraft |
Content
- 1 Construction
- 2 Design
- 3 Service
- 4 Ship Museum
- 5 Interesting Facts
- 6 notes
- 7 References
Construction
It was built in Newport News (VA) and went into operation on August 16, 1943 .
Design
Length 265 meters, weight 42 thousand tons. It has 1600 hatches and doors on board, the total length of electric cables is 32 thousand km.
Service
Intrepid served on the U.S. Navy for 31 years. It has a rich military history. Since 1943, the aircraft carrier took part in the battles in the Pacific Ocean . In a battle near Truk Island on February 17-18, 1944, he was attacked by a torpedo bomber of the Nakajima B5N type and damaged by one torpedo, after which he was forced to leave for San Francisco for repairs. He returned to duty in June 1944.
Later, the aircraft carrier suffered five attacks of the kamikaze (on October 29, 1944, getting into the gun mount did little damage, after the blow on November 22, he had to go for repair [1] ).
He took part in the blockade of Cuba during the Caribbean crisis , was used for its intended purpose during the Korean and Vietnamese wars .
The aircraft carrier was used by NASA in the space missions Mercury and Gemini , picking up the descent capsules in the ocean.
Museum Ship
In 1974, the ship was decommissioned, it was planned to disassemble it, but at the initiative of the millionaire Zachary Fisher, it was turned into a museum ship .
The ship is moored to 86th pier in New York and since 1982 is a naval and aerospace museum, which is visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists a year. If necessary, the ship is able to become a center for emergency services. In 1986, Intrepid was recognized as a US landmark.
Since 2006, the ship was undergoing reconstruction in dry docks in Beyonne ( New Jersey ), and on November 8, 2008, the ship-museum was again opened to visitors.
In June 2012, the Enterprise shuttle was installed on the floating aviation museum equipped with the Intrepid aircraft carrier [2] .
Interesting Facts
GOP presidential candidate for the 2008 Republican Party, John McCain, served on the torpedo bomber Avenger on Intrepid before being sent to Vietnam .
Notes
- ↑ Russian Accent ( RTVi , June 2, 2013)
- ↑ The Space Shuttle Enterprise was placed at the Floating Aviation Museum in New York // KP