USS Intrepid (CV-11/CVA-11/CVS-11)

A visual history of USS Intrepid, one of the most visited museum ships in the world!

USS Intrepid, the “Fighting I,” was one of America’s longest-serving aircraft carriers. Launched during WWII, Intrepid and her crews weathered kamikazes, torpedoes, and typhoons throughout three years of heavy combat.

• Decommissioned after WWII, Intrepid was recommissioned in 1955 and designated as an attack carrier (CVA), and in 1961 as an antisubmarine warfare carrier (CVS).
• In the early 1960s, Intrepid served to retrieve some of the nation’s first astronauts during the pioneering Mercury and Gemini spaceflights.
• In 1966, Intrepid made the first of three deployments to the Tonkin Gulf for combat operations with Carrier Air Wing 10 during the Vietnam War. 
• Intrepid cruised throughout the North Atlantic and Mediterranean in the early 1970s while patrolling for