USS Intrepid (CV-11)

US Navy Ship Wood Embedded object Blanks 27/64" blanks are for Sierra Clones 12.5mm & 10.5mm blanks are for JR series All blanks will come with one COA per blank. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with silver foil embossed COA seal. All blanks are cut as they are ordered. ------------------------------------------------------------ USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in August 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, most notably the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). In her second career, she served mainly in the Atlantic, but also participated in the Vietnam War. Her notable achievements include being the recovery ship for a Mercury and a Gemini space mission. Because of her prominent role in battle, she was nicknamed "the Fighting I", while her frequent bad luck and time spent in dry dock for repairs—she was torpedoed once and hit by four separate Japanese kamikaze aircraft—earned her the nicknames "Decrepit" and "the Dry I". Decommissioned in 1974, in 1982 Intrepid became the foundation of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.   History United States Name: Intrepid Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding Laid down: 1 December 1941 Launched: 26 April 1943 Commissioned: 16 August 1943 Decommissioned: 15 March 1974 Struck: 23 February 1982 Nickname(s): "Fighting I", "Dry I" Status: Museum ship at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. Badge: General characteristics Class and type: Essex-class aircraft carrier Displacement: 27,100 long tons (27,500 t) (standard) 36,380 long tons (36,960 t) (full load) Length: 820 feet (249.9 m) (waterline) 872 feet (265.8 m) (o/a) Beam: 93 ft (28.3 m) (waterline) Draft: 34 ft 2 in (10.41 m) (full load) Installed power: 8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers 150,000 shp (110,000 kW) Propulsion: 4 × shafts; 4 × geared steam turbines Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) Range: 14,100 nmi (26,100 km; 16,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) Complement: 2,600 officers and enlisted men Armament: 4 × twin, 4 × single 5 in (127 mm) DP guns 8 × quadruple 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns 46 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) AA guns Armor: Waterline belt: 2.5-4 in (64-102 mm) Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm) Hangar deck: 2.5 in (64 mm) Bulkheads: 4 in (102 mm) Aircraft carried: 91-103 aircraft