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Getting the intrepid (CV-11) away from her Manhattan berth after 24 years proved a chore last year, but the second leg of the voyage to a long-awaited restoration proved short and sweet. On 10 April, the famed World War II aircraft carrier made the trip of about a mile from a Bayonne, New Jersey, dock to an adjacent drydock without incident.
The move began at 0828 when four McAllister tugboats pulled the 912-foot catrier away from the pier and out into New York Harbor to the Bayonne Dry Dock & Repair Corporation for 60 to 75 days of intensive testoration and revitalization. "It's an awesome sight to see this historic ship safe and sound, ready for her extreme makeover," intrepid Sea, Air 6k. Space Museum President Bill White said once the ship was finally secured in the drydock 3 hours and 20 minutes later.
Commissioned in August 1943, the Intrepid survived five Japanese kamikaze strikes in World War II. The carrier avoided the scrap yard in 1982, when she was moved to Manhattan to become the centerpiece of the museum. But almost 65 years of exposure and 30 years...