USS Intrepid
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USS Intrepid is an attraction in New York, at a modelled elevation of 4 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Intrepid Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 6.5 miles off.
The story
USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in August 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, including the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). In her second career, she served mainly in the Atlantic, but also participated in the Vietnam War. She was the recovery ship for a Mercury and a Gemini space mission. Because of her prominent role in battle, she was nicknamed "the Fighting I", while her frequent bad luck and time spent in dry dock for repairs—she was torpedoed once and hit in separate attacks by four Japanese kamikaze aircraft—earned her the nicknames "Decrepit" and "the Dry I". Decommissioned for the second time in 1974, she was put into service as a museum ship in 1982 as the foundation of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Complex in New York City. Due to being perceived as a jinxed ship during WWII, the Intrepid had picked up the nicknames "Evil I" and "Decrepid" during its service.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q1351288, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1943
- Height
- 14 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Intrepid Museum
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 6.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 7.9 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 25.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Intrepid Museum: 0.1 mi
- Madame Tussauds New York: 0.9 mi
- Museum of Broadway: 1.0 mi
- Museum of Arts and Design: 1.0 mi
- National Academy of Design: 1.0 mi
- Pier 84: 0.1 mi
- DeWitt Clinton Park: 0.4 mi
- Pier 76: 0.4 mi
- Hells Kitchen Park: 0.5 mi
- Matthews-Palmer Playground: 0.5 mi
- Royal Caribbean/Norweigan Cruise Pier: 0.1 mi
- Circle Line: 0.1 mi
- The Ride: 0.8 mi
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!: 0.9 mi
- Spyscape: 0.9 mi
- Alonso Community Garden: 0.4 mi
- Clinton Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- Alice's Garden: 0.7 mi
- Lobby Garden: 0.8 mi
- Rock Garden: 0.9 mi
- Clinton War Memorial (Doughboy): 0.4 mi
- Private Passage: 0.5 mi
- Big Apple: 0.6 mi
- Swinging Jenny: 0.7 mi
- The Commuters: 0.7 mi
- S.S. United States Propeller: 0.4 mi
- Hudson River Park: 0.5 mi
- Weehawken 9/11 Memorial: 0.8 mi
- New York Central Locomotive: 0.8 mi
- Nikola Tesla: 0.9 mi
- Kings Bluff: 1.1 mi
- Vista Rock: 1.9 mi
- Summit Rock: 2.1 mi
- Great Hill: 3.1 mi
- Mount Morris: 4.1 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 1.4 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 3.2 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 3.8 mi
- Lehrer Tract: 4.6 mi
- Riverbend Wetlands Preserve: 4.7 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 1.6 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 1.8 mi
- Newport Sand Beach: 2.8 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 3.4 mi
- Pebble Beach: 4.2 mi
- Street Seats: 2.9 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 4.1 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 4.6 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 4.8 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 4.8 mi
- Palisades: 1.1 mi
- Palisades: 2.7 mi
- Palisades: 3.1 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 5.7 mi
- Palisades: 9.3 mi
- The Loch: 3.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 7.1 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 7.3 mi
- Binnen Falls: 7.3 mi
- The Falls: 12.0 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 3.1 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 15.8 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 15.8 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 20.9 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 20.9 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 4.4 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 10.7 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 19.8 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 19.9 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 21.0 mi
- Barber: 21.1 mi
- Tulip Springs: 15.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.8 miles of USS Intrepid. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 324° | 268 m | 17.6 mi |
| Waughaw Mountain | NW 304° | 263 m | 22.4 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 323° | 260 m | 18.6 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 323° | 230 m | 17.3 mi |
| Campgaw Mountain | NNW 333° | 224 m | 22.6 mi |
| LeGrande Hill | NW 324° | 219 m | 22.7 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 11° | 208 m | 20.0 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 321° | 185 m | 19.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:50 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 36 | 43 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 86000082OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- National Register of Historic Places — USS INTREPID (aircraft carrier), reference 86000082, listed 01/14/86.
OpenStreetMap element way/50603780
Day trips start here
- Manhattan/Chelsea · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Midtown East · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Theater District · 1 mi
- Weehawken · 1 mi
- Hoboken · 2 mi
- Manhattan · 2 mi
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