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YSR-42
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YF-331
USTS Intrepid (III) [Training Ship #2]

1913 International Radio Call Sign:
Nan - Have - Rush NHR

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 USTS 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 in 1941 and placed in service as Open Lighter (NSP) YF-331

Redesignated Sludge Removal Barge YSR-42 in 1942

Placed out of service, date unknown

Struck from the Naval Register, 8 May 1946

Final Disposition, wrecked on the north beach of the Columbia River, 16 February 1954. YSR-42 was stranded just north of Long Beach after being cut loose from the tug Tidewater Shaver near Buoy No. 5 and carried by tide and current onto the the beach. YSR-42 and another smaller barge being towed from Honolulu to Portland without a cargo when they threatened to carry the tug onto Peacock Spit.

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 *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 *Intrepid* at Mare Island Navy Yard, 2 January 1904.	Darryl Baker
	111k	A progress view of *Intrepid* on the ways at Mare Island Navy Yard on 2 July 1904.	Darryl Baker
	129k	*Intrepid* ready for launching at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 8 October 1904. US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 76116	Mike Green
	85k	*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 *Intrepid* on the building ways, 8 October 1904 at Mare Island.	Darryl Baker
	146k	*Intrepid* christening, 8 October 1904 at Mare Island Navy Yard.	Darryl Baker
	150k	*Intrepid* half way down the ways on 8 October 1904 at Mare Island Navy Yard.	Darryl Baker
094690130	84k	*Intrepid* waterborne for the first time, 8 October 1904, at Mare Island Navy Yard.	David Wright
	80k	*Intrepid* waterborne after launching at Mare Island, 8 October 1904.	Darryl Baker
	103k	*Intrepid* waterborne after launching at Mare Island, 8 October 1904. US Navy photo.	Tommy Trampp
	223k	*Intrepid* captain's cabin under construction at Mare Island, 7 December 1904. US Navy photo from the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum, File Name Intrepid 01-12-04	Darryl Baker
	310k	*Intrepid* aft gun deck under construction at Mare Island, 7 December 1904. US Navy photo from the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum, File Name Intrepid 02-12-04	Darryl Baker
	107k	*Intrepid* at Mare Island Navy Yard being outfitted 1 April 1905. US Navy photos from the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum.	Darryl Baker
File Name Intrepid 01-4-05	592k		Darryl Baker
	78k	One of *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. *Intrepid* is in the background. MINSY 587-12-1905, Navy Photo, Dec. 1905..	Darryl Baker
094691028	220k	USTS Intrepid (III), background, and USS Pensacola (I), foreground, moored at US Naval Training Station, Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay, circa 1907.	Jay Milewski
094690128	291k	USTS Intrepid moored at Goat Island Naval Training Island. Oakland Mole (Oakland Long Wharf) is in the background, circa 1907-1912.	Ben Levinsohn
	159k	USTS Intrepid anchored at Yerba Buena Naval Training Station, San Francisco. The stern of receiving ship *USS Pensacola* is visible to the right. This photo was attached to the certificate issued to H. H. Loveless, Chief Machinist Mate USN, 25 September1907, upon completing training as an ordinary seaman after 4 months of instruction. The next year he sailed with Dewey in the Great White Fleet. He left the Navy after 2 tours but rejoined in 1924 and was in Hawaii until 1934 and retired just prior to WWII but was recalled and served through the war.	Joan Johnson and was her grandfather H. H. Loveless
	94k	USTS Intrepid moored pierside at San Francisco (Yerba Buena or Goat Island) Training Station circa 1912. US Navy photo from "U.S. Warships of World War 1", courtesy Paul H. Silverstone.	Robert Hurst
	135k	USTS Intrepid moored pierside at San Francisco (Yerba Buena or Goat Island) Training Station circa 1912. US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 53252	Mike Green
	158k	USTS Intrepid at the United States Naval Training Camp, Mare Island, Calif., circa 1914. *Intrepid* is moored at the camp wharf. The building on the left contained quarters for the men of the night patrol, and the wharf also had a landing for small boats. US Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo No. NH 72962. Courtesy Shipscribe.com.	Robert Hurst
	252k	USTS Intrepid moored at the Naval Training Center, Goat Island, San Francisco Bay, CA., prior to World War I. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 78278, courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1973.	Mike Green
	63k	USTS 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	USTS 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	USTS 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
	125k	The skeletal remains of ex-USTS Intrepid exposed on a beach in Washington state, circa 1960s.	Tommy Trampp
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
	181k	*YSR-42* at Pearl Harbor off Ford Island, circa 1945.	David Wright
094690129	113k	Wreck of ex-*YSR-42* on the north beach of the Columbia River. On 16 February 1954 *YSR-42* was stranded just north of Long Beach after being cut loose from the tug *Tidewater Shaver* near Buoy No. 5 and carried by tide and current onto the the beach.	David Wright