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USS Intrepid (Training Ship #2) (1907 - 1921)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

World War I Victory Medal

Steel-hulled Bark:

Laid down 2 January 1904 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.

Launched, 8 October 1904

Commissioned USS Intrepid (Training Ship #2), 16 August 1907, CDR. Edward E. Capehart in command

USS Intrepid was one of two steel hulled ships used to train landsmen and apprentices

Decommissioned, 15 October 1914

Intrepid served as a receiving ship for various Naval installation in the San Francisco Bay area

Commissioned in ordinary, 11 November 1915

Decommissioned, 30 August 1921

Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown

Sold, 20 December 1921, for commercial service as a barge

Reacquired by the US Navy during World War II, placed in service as Sludge Removal Barge YSR-42 at Pearl Harbor

Final Disposition, wrecked on the north beach of the Columbia River, date unknown

Specifications (Training Ship #2):
Displacement 1,600 t.
Length 186' 5"'
Beam 45' 8"'
Draft 16' 5"
Speed unknown
Complement 136
Armament 6 4" gun mounts, 4-6 pdrs, 2 1-pdrs
Propulsion Sail (bark rigged)
Auxiliary Power, coal fired boiler, compound reciprocating engine to supply electrical power

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Intrepid (Training Ship #2)
	93k	Navy VIPs gather for the keel laying of the steel bark USS Intrepid at Mare Island Navy Yard, 2 January 1904. She was the first all steel ship constructed at the yard. Building 112, the old sheet metal shop, is in the background, and the Navy Band was on hand for the occasion.	Darryl Baker
	119k	The first rivets are driven for USS Intrepid at Mare Island Navy Yard, 2 January 1904.	Darryl Baker
	111k	A progress view of USS Intrepid on the ways at Mare Island Navy Yard on 2 July 1904.	Darryl Baker
	85k	USS Intrepid ready for launching at Mare Island, 8 October 1904. The building of the left was the yard's Gate House.	Darryl Baker
	93k	Stern view of USS Intrepid on the building ways, 8 October 1904 at Mare Island.	Darryl Baker
	146k	USS Intrepid christening, 8 October 1904 at Mare Island Navy Yard.	Darryl Baker
	150k	USS Intrepid half way down the ways on 8 October 1904 at Mare Island Navy Yard.	Darryl Baker
	80k	USS Intrepid waterborne after launching at Mare Island, 8 October 1904.	Darryl Baker
	107k	USS Intrepid at Mare Island Navy Yard being outfitted 1 April 1905.	Darryl Baker
	78k	One of USS Intrepid's port side gun ports, taken at Mare Island Navy Yard, 1 April 1905.	Darryl Baker
	407k	*YPD-1* working on the construction of dry dock #2 at Mare Island in December 1905. USS Intrepid is in the background. MINSY 587-12-1905, Navy Photo, Dec. 1905..	Darryl Baker
	94k	One of USS Intrepid anchored alongside a jetty and dressed overall, date and location unknown . Photo from the book "U.S. Warships of World War 1", courtesy Paul H. Silverstone	Robert Hurst
	63k	USS Intrepid at the Independence Wharf at Mare Island Navy Yard in the early 1920s. She was servings as the Yard's Receiving Ship at this time.	Darryl Baker
	100k	USS Intrepid (front), the Army Tug *T. Murphy* (mid dock on the left), the Navy Tug USS Vigilant (directly behind *Intrepid), *Water Barge #16 & YE-30** (not visible in this photo) on the far side of the dock and cruiser USS Marblehead (rear of the dock) are pictured in Dry Dock # 2 at Mare Island Navy Yard, 18 March 1913. Picture taken looking south.	Darryl Baker
	131k	USS Intrepid (front), **Water Barge #16 & YE-30 (port side of Intrepid** and USS Marblehead), the Navy Tug USS Vigilant (directly behind *Intrepid), the Army Tug T. Murphy* (not visible in this photo) on the far side of the dock and cruiser USS Marblehead (rear of the dock) are pictured in Dry Dock # 2 at Mare Island Navy Yard, 8 March 1913. Picture taken looking east.	Darryl Baker
YSR-42
	89k	*YSR-42* at Pearl Harbor, circa 1944. The ship in the background is *USS Oklahoma* (BB-37)** shown before stripping was complete. Note that the guns of No.2 turret have already been removed, but the others remain.	Robert Hurst