USS Intrepid CVS-11

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Spacecraft Recovery
    24 May 1962: Scott Carpenter, Aurora 7 (USS John R. Pierce recovered the capsule)
    23 March 1965: Gemini 3

General Characteristics:
    Awarded: 3 July 1940
    Keel laid: 1 December 1941
    Launched: 26 April 1943
    Commissioned: 16 August 1943
    Decommissioned: 15 March 1974
    Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Va.
    Propulsion system: 8 boilers
    Propellers: four
    Aircraft elevators: three
    Arresting gear cables: four
    Catapults: two
    Length: 876 feet (267 meters)
    Flight Deck Width: 191.9 feet (58.5 meters)
    Beam: 101 feet (30.8 meters)
    Draft: 30.8 feet (9.4 meters)
    Displacement: approx. 40,600 tons full load
    Speed: 33 knots
    Planes: 80-100 planes
    Crew: approx. 3448   as CVS: 115 officers, 1500 enlisted
    Armament:
       1943: 12 5-inch (12.7 cm) 38 caliber guns, 40 40mm guns and 55 20mm guns
       1944: 12 5-inch (12.7 cm) 38 caliber guns, 64 40mm guns and 56 20mm guns
       1954: 8 5-inch (12.7 cm) 38 caliber guns and 14 3-inch (7.6 cm) 50 caliber guns
       1974: 4 5-inch (12.7 cm) 38 caliber guns

The Intrepid is on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City, NY.

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