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Intrepid meets Waterworld

fishervillage on intrepid

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Pretty neat depiction of USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11) as a fisher-village in a post-apocalyptic scenario by zsolti65 on Deviant Art

Known as the “Fighting I,” Intrepid was laid down just a week before Pearl Harbor and was one of two dozen Essex-class fast fleet carriers completed.

USS Intrepid in the Philippine Sea, November 1944

USS Intrepid in the Philippine Sea, November 1944

Decommissioned on the Ides of March, 1974, she picked up ten battlestars from the Marshall Islands to Vietnam and has been moored as a museum in in New York City since 1982, where she serves as an emergency operations center when needed.

She’s also the only aircraft carrier in the world with her own Space Shuttle