USS Intrepid (CV-11) Moving NOW!

[MkXIV]

www.cnn.com

On the right of the screen under pipeline USS Intrepid Send Off. Live feed of the move.

She is being move to a drydock for some repairs.

[Ron Saueracker]

Wow...pretty great how the majority of naval museums are so well maintained. Too bad marginal museums like Cavalla are neglected.

Anyone noticing just how long it is taking for the Intrepid to be nudged out of the slip?[:)] They should get 2by3 in there to get them moving. Or Maybe David Heath, he lives in New York City does he not? Intrepid would be at Bayonne by now and the refit would be almost done today![:D]

[Terminus]

Except for the last 2 or 3% of sys damage, which'd take three months to finish fixing...[:D]

[Ron Saueracker]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Except for the last 2 or 3% of sys damage, which'd take three months to finish fixing...[:D]

Haahaaa. [:D] Intrepid is in dock until 2008 I've heard.

[MkXIV]

ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

Wow...pretty great how the majority of naval museums are so well maintained. Too bad marginal museums like Cavalla are neglected.

Anyone noticing just how long it is taking for the Intrepid to be nudged out of the slip?[:)] They should get 2by3 in there to get them moving. Or Maybe David Heath, he lives in New York City does he not? Intrepid would be at Bayonne by now and the refit would be almost done today![:D]

Appers she is stuck in the mud, [X(]

[Sardaukar]

Stuck in mud ?!? Now, that explains why my carriers in WitP repair so slowly !! [:D]

[MkXIV]

Looks like she is really stuck good plans to move her have been called off for today

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/06/ussint ... index.html

[anarchyintheuk]

I'm not a sailor but you'd think that they might have wanted to check that before they put her in reverse.

[The Duke]

Apparently she doesn't have engines anymore; it's old skool tugs that will have to do the work...
 

[Mike Solli]

This morning Fox News showed a video of 4 tugs trying to move her. They were pulling for all they were worth and she wasn't moving at all.

Edit: I stand corrected. There were 6 (and then 7) tugs trying, but I only saw 4 on the video. See CapSkillet's thread.

[Ron Saueracker]

Gary Grigsby could have moved her in seconds![:D] Right tool for the right job.

[wild_Willie2]

Damn, I was planning on seeing here when I was going to the US in february.......

[wild_Willie2]

Now she is gone until late 2008....

[tocaff]

She got all of 12 feet, 4 meters, before running(?) aground.  There was an abnormally high tide too.  They think that the repairs will now be made where she sits instead of drydock.

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: tocaff

She got all of 12 feet, 4 meters, before running(?) aground.  There was an abnormally high tide too.  They think that the repairs will now be made where she sits instead of drydock.

If they wait till summer...it WILL be a dry dock![;)]

[crsutton]

Come on now. They were finally able to clean up Times Square. Seems like they should be able to figure a way to get her out of the mud.[;)]