USS Intrepid is in the news lately as it prepares to become the new home to the space shuttle Enterprise. One thing that puzzles me is they will erect a tent over Enterprise. This ship was designed to slip the surly bonds of Earth strapped to solid rocket boosters and return time and time again in a fiery Mach 25 re-entry. But they have to cover it sitting on the Intrepid flight deck? To be fair, Enterprise was a prototype and never actually reached orbit. But, I digress...
One lucky reporter from Business Insider got to visit some areas below deck and off the public tour that haven't been restored. The compartments are untouched and remain just as they were in 1974 when Intrepid was decommissioned. For an old Coastie seadog, it really brought back some memories of being underway.
Check out the pictures.
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Cool Intrepid pics.
I did two 'tours' (overnight visits) on the CV-16 Lex as a Cub Sprout leader. They ask for overnight 'fire watch' volunteers, and on my second tour I stepped up.
In reality, while we certainly could've alerted the sleeping campers to any fire danger, the 'fire watch' was an opportunity to go into the areas, guided by museum employees, that are off limits to the public tours.
The men who manned those ships were made of stout stuff to survive the engine room, ship's laundry & officers' uniform pressing room, kitchen & scullery, in the tropics under full power.
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